Ranajay Ghosh is an associate professor at the UCF Departmet of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a core faculty member in the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Research. His research focusses on architected and bioinspired solids, mechanical metamaterials and multiscale/multiphysics modeling. He earned his doctorate in mechanical and aerospace Engineering from Cornell University and holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Ghosh earned an NSF CAREER award in 2019 from the mechanics of materials and solids program. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 journal papers, two book chapters and over 10 conference proceedings. His work has featured on the cover of more than six high-impact journals and has been featured in Discovery, Newsweek and the New York Times.

• Ali H, Ebrahimi H, Ghosh R. Bending of biomimetic scale covered beams under discrete nonperiodic engagement. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2019 (In press).


• Wu Q, Vaziri A, Asl ME, Ghosh R, Gao Y, Wei X, Ma L, Xiong J, Wu L. Lattice materials with pyramidal hierarchy: Systematic analysis and three dimensional failure mechanism maps. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2019 Apr 1;125:112-44.


• Kamrava S, Ghosh R, Yang Y, Vaziri A. Slender origami with complex 3D folding shapes. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 2018 Dec 27;124(5):58001.


• Loaliyan SS, Bahaloo H, Ghosh R, Nayeb-Hashemi H, Vaziri A. Energy harvesting using snap through deformation in lattice structures. Applied Physics Letters. 2018 Dec 17;113(25):253902.


• Kamrava S, Ghosh R,Wang Z, Vaziri A. Origami-Inspired Cellular Metamaterial With Anisotropic Multi-Stability. Advanced Engineering Materials. 2018:1800895.


• Biswas I, Ghosh R, Sadrzadeh M, Kumar A. Near wall void growth leads to disintegration of colloidal bacterial streamer. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 2018 Jul 15;522:249-55.


• Smith NM, Ebrahimi H, Ghosh R, Dickerson AK. High-speed microjets issue from bursting oil gland reservoirs of citrus fruit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018 Jun


• Ghosh R, Ebrahimi H, Vaziri A. Non-ideal e_ects in bending response of soft substrates covered with biomimetic scales. Journal Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 2017;72:1-5.