In this study, the stress distribution and critical speed of rotating isotropic disk with arbitrary thickness are investigated based on the thin plate theory. The critical speed is evaluated for different values of radius ratio and thickness ratio. The results show that increasing the values of ratio of radii and thickness parameter can effectively increase the critical speed of the plate for a lower order mode. By incorporating Genetic algorithm (G.A ) method and transfer matrix analysis, the shape design of rotating disks for uniform stress distribution and enhancing critical speed has also been implemended. Numerical results show that for the case of uniform stress, the thickness distribution of the disk shows larger variation as the radius ratio is decreased. The thickness distribution of the disk with a higher rotating speed is more precipitous than those at lower rotating speed. The thickness of inner edge for the disk at high rotating speed is thicker than those at low rotating speed.