Somnath Ghosh

Short Bio:

Professor Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this, he was the John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at the Ohio State University. At JHU, he is the founding Director of the Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulation (CISMMS), a multidisciplinary research center to foster foundational advances in Computational Structure-Material Analysis and Design. For his visionary research in ICME, Computational Mechanics of Materials and Materials Science, the US Air Force funded a 6-year Center of Excellence entitled “Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM)” from 2012-2018, with Professor Ghosh as its PI and Director. He has also assumed important leadership roles in various professional societies. He was the President of the US Association of Computational Mechanics (2014-2016) and Vice-President (2012-2014). He is currently the Vice-President of the Board of Governors of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). \r\nProfessor Somnath Ghosh is an established leader in the field of Mechanics and Materials. He has worked across the academic disciplines, government laboratories and industry to make pioneering advances in the state-of-the art of engineering materials research. His innovative research, transcends the fields of Computational Mechanics, Computational Materials Science, as well as Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling, to enable significant advances in emerging fields such as the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) etc. A unique characteristics of his research is that he identifies problems with considerable computational modeling challenges and innovates new computational methods to these overcoming bottlenecks. He has made a number of novel contributions to materials research. His interdisciplinary research has helped bring the Computational Mechanics and Computational Materials Science communities to work together on problems of high technological relevance. He has also taken leadership roles in multidisciplinary research organizations, as well as professional societies to foster growth of Materials research and implementation. His research outcomes have been disseminated not only through archival literature, but also through research software and knowledge-