Guruswami Ravichandran


Guruswami Ravichandran is a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. He is also serving as the Otis Booth Leadership Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech. He served as the director of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at California Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2015.

Education

Guruswami Ravichandran received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, formerly affiliated to University of Madras in 1981. He received Master of Science in Solid Mechanics and Structures in 1983, Applied Mathematics in 1984 and Doctorate of Philosophy in Solid Mechanics and Structures in 1986, all from Brown University. National Institute of Technology,Tiruchirappalli awarded him Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008.