Faculty Member, Aerospace Engineering
Professor
About
Prof. Ranjan Ganguli obtained his B.Tech (Hons.) in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1989 and proceeded to the US to complete his M.S. and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, under the guidance of Prof. Inderjit Chopra, well known authority in helicopter dynamics, smart structures and micro air vehicles. Following his PhD in the area of aeroelastic optimization of composite and advanced geometry helicopter rotors, he worked until 1997 at the Rotorcraft Center on projects on rotorcraft health monitoring funded by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Bethesda, Maryland, and by the United Technology Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut on helicopter vibratory load validation. He has also worked at the GE Research Lab in Schenectady, New York for about a year and at Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut on the area of gas turbine diagnostics for about two years, before returning to India to join the Aerospace Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor in July 2000. He was promoted to Associate Professor in September 2005 and to Full Professor in July 2009.
Prof. Ganguli's current interests are in helicopter aeromechanics, aeroelasticity, structural dynamics, smart structures, design optimization and health monitoring. He is also interested in gas turbine diagnostics, applied mathematics, nanoscience and multiscale modeling. His research efforts are focused towards the important problems of vibration and noise reduction and aeroelastic stability enhancement through active control and design optimization of helicopter rotors. He is also involved in developing techniques for improved health monitoring of helicopters and gas turbines and in numerical methods involving finite elements for improved structural dynamics modeling of rotating systems. His recent interests include flapping wings and uncertainty quantification in aeroelasticity and structural health monitoring. He has worked on sponsored research projects from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and the Aeronautical Research and Development Board and is involved in consulting for HAL, Honeywell, Pratt and Whitney, National Program of Smart Materials, and Boeing. His research efforts have lead to 114 international journal articles and 72 conference papers. His papers have been cited over 820 times in Scopus and his h-index is 16, which are exceptional numbers in aerospace.
Prof. Ganguli has written a textbook on Engineering Optimization which combines classical optimization methods with modern response surface and stochastic methods. He has presented papers at various international conferences around the world and won the ASME best paper award in 2001, the "Swarnya Jayanti"(Golden Jubilee) award of the Aeronautical Society of India in 2002, INSA-DFG Fellowship in 2005, INSA-NRF Fellowship in 2009. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in 2007 “in acknowledgment of the scholar’s scientific contributions”. Prof. Ganguli was elected as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2009 for “notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics”.
Prof. Ganguli was elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for “distinguished contributions in engineering”. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
At IISc, he teaches courses on flight and space mechanics, engineering optimization, helicopter engineering, aircraft structures and flight vehicles design. He has supervised the projects of 5 PhD students, 5 MSc(Engg.) students and 21 ME students who are now well placed in industry, government and academia. He is currently guiding 10 PhD students, 2 MSc(Engg.) and 3 ME students. He has also helped many BE students get an insight into research by hosting them during summer months. Many of these students have gone on to do PhD in engineering.
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