Ranjan Ganguli is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Following his PhD in the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, he worked at the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center of the University of Maryland as an Assistant Research Scientist from 1994 to 1997 on projects on rotorcraft health monitoring and vibratory load validation for the Naval Surface Warfare Center and United Technology Research Center, respectively. He also worked at the GE Research Lab in Schenectady, New York, and at Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut, from 1997 to 2000. He has held visiting positions at TU Braunschweig, University of Ulm and Max Planck Institute of Metal Research, Stuttgart, in Germany; University Paul Sabatier and Institute of Mathematics, in Toulouse, France; Konkuk University in South Korea, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in USA, and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.