The 2024 JN Reddy Medal Inaugural Recipient

Somnath Ghosh

The Michael G. Callas Professor in Civil & Systems Engineering, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Citation:

For outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of Integrated Computational Engineering & Sciences including Mechanics and Materials with significant industrial impact and bringing together these communities through strong interdisciplinary professional leadership.

Dr. Somnath Ghosh is the founding director of the JHU Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulations. He is currently the co-PI/co-Director of the NASA Space Technology Research Institute, Institute for Model-based Qualification and Certification of Additive Manufacturing from 2023-2028. He was the PI/director of the Air Force Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling from 2012-2018. Prior to JHU, he was John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at Ohio State University.

Professor Ghosh’s multidisciplinary research integrating Computational Mechanics and Computational Materials Science at multiple scales, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, and Machine Learning, has had a transformative impact on the field. His research has made game-changing advances in the prognosis and life prediction of metals, composites, and multifunctional materials like piezo-electric composites. Among his acclaimed contributions are the renowned synthetic microstructure builder (DREAM.3D) and statistically-equivalent representative volume elements (SERVE), the Parametrically Upscaled Constitutive and Damage Models (PUCM/PUCDM) for predicting fatigue and failure facilitating location-specific material design, a breakthrough technology in multiscale modeling linking material microstructure with component response, the Wavelet Transformation Induced Multi-Time Scaling (WATMUS) method for fatigue and multiphysics problems undergoing cyclic evolution, and the Voronoi Cell FEM (VCFEM) for image-based micromechanical modeling of heterogeneous materials. He has published books, large number of papers in major journals and proceedings, and book chapters with high citations. He is on the editorial board of 12 major journals.

Professor Ghosh is a fellow of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), Society of Engineering Science (SES), Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI/ASCE), International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), US Assoc. Comp. Mech. (USACM), ASM International, and ASME. His awards include the Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (TMS/MPMD), R. Mindlin Medal (ASCE-EMI), J.T. Oden Medal (USACM), Computational Mechanics Award (IACM), Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Medal (ASME/AMD), ICCM Investigator Medal, Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (TMS/SMD), Nathan M. Newmark Medal (ASCE), Distinguished Scholar Award and Harrison Award (Ohio State University), and NSF Young Investigator Award.

Dr. Ghosh was an elected President of US Association for Computational Mechanics (2014-2016), an elected Vice-President (2018-2020, Treasurer 2017-2018) of ASCE-Engineering Mechanics Institute Board of Governors, the TMS/ICME Publications chair (2018-2022), and a member of the IACM General Council (2009-2024).

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