Somnath Ghosh

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Somnath Ghosh is a leading engineer and professor at Johns Hopkins University. He holds the Michael G. Callas Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering and also teaches Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. He started the Johns Hopkins Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulation (CISMMS) and led an Air Force Center of Excellence in Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM).

Education and early career
- B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur
- M.S. in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics from Cornell University
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics from the University of Michigan
- Began his career as an Assistant Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the University of Alabama in 1988
- Joined Ohio State University in 1991 and became the John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2004

At Johns Hopkins and leadership roles
- Joined Johns Hopkins in 2011 as the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in Civil Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Became director and principal investigator of CEIMM in 2012
- Founded CISMMS in 2013 to advance computational structure–material research
- Since 2023, co-director of the NASA Space Technology Research Institute for Model-based Qualification and Certification of Additive Manufacturing (IMQCAM)

Professional service and impact
- Has held senior roles in many professional groups, including President (2014–2016), Vice President (2012–2014), and Secretary (2010–2012) of the US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
- Previously served on the Board of Governors (Vice President) of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of ASCE and sits on the general council of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM)
- Serves on the editorial boards of 14 journals and on various industrial and government advisory boards

Research and teaching
- Specializes in computational mechanics of materials, multiscale and multiphysics modeling, and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)
- Directs the Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL) at Johns Hopkins
- Notable contributions include the Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method (VCFEM) for micromechanics, the wavelet-based WATMUS method, and Parametrically Upscaled Constitutive Models (PUCMs) for fatigue and failure
- Recent work combines computational mechanics with machine learning, focusing on additive manufacturing and deformable sensors

Publications and books
- Published over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles
- Authored Micromechanical Analysis and Multi-Scale Modeling Using the Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method
- Edited two books: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) and Computational Methods for Microstructure-Property Relations
- Edited a section in the Handbook of Materials Modeling, Volume 1: Methods: Theory and Modeling