{"id":1251,"date":"2021-06-21T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/faculty\/somnath-ghosh\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:38:33","slug":"somnath-ghosh","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/faculty\/somnath-ghosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Somnath Ghosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering. He is the director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cmrl.jhu.edu\/\">Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0and the founding director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cismms.jhu.edu\/\">Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulations<\/a>, an interdisciplinary research center to foster advances in computational structure-material analysis and design. He is also the co-director of NASA\u2019s Space Technology Research Institute for Model-based Qualification and Certification of Additive Manufacturing, leading the team in developing a digital twin for additive manufacturing.\u00a0Ghosh was previously the lead PI and director of the multi-university Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling, also known as CEIMM, funded by the U.S. Air Force. He holds secondary appointments\u00a0as a professor\u00a0in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>His research has had a transformative impact on modeling metals, composites, and multifunctional materials in various applications. He has made game-changing advances in spatio-temporal multiscale and multiphysics modeling with a focus on prognosis and life prediction of metals and composites, as well as in multifunctional applications like damage sensing in piezo-electric materials and load-bearing antenna.\u00a0A number of his computational models and tools are in use in the aerospace, automotive, materials, and propulsion industries with entities like Pratt &amp; Whitney, General Electric, and Rolls-Royce, as well as in Department of Defense laboratories like the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, and multiple NASA agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh has published nearly 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceeding publications. He has authored a book titled <em>Micromechanical Analysis and Multi-Scale Modeling Using the Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method<\/em> and co-edited two books, \u00a0<em>Computational Methods for Microstructure-Property Relations<\/em> and <em>Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME): Advancing Computational and Experimental Methods<\/em>. He is also a co-editor of <em>Crystal Plasticity: Atomistics to Macroscale <\/em>in the<em> Handbook of Materials Modeling, Volume 1 Methods: Theory and Modeling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Fellow of 10 professional societies, including The Materials and Minerals Society, Society of Engineering Science, Engineering Mechanics Institute, the International Association of Computational Mechanics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, ASM International, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2025, he was awarded the Theodore von Karman Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers\u2019 Engineering Mechanics Institute and was also elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh received his bachelor\u2019s in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a master\u2019s in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University, and a doctorate in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1251","people","type-people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somnath Ghosh - Department of Civil &amp; Systems Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/somnath-ghosh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Somnath Ghosh - Department of Civil &amp; Systems Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. 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