Rate My Professor Devesh Ranjan

Devesh Ranjan is a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served from 2014 until 2025. He held the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and the Ring Family Chair, along with roles such as Interim Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research in 2021 and Associate Chair for Research since 2019. Prior to Georgia Tech, Ranjan was the Morris E. Foster Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2009 to 2014 and a Director’s Research Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and 2005, respectively, and a B.E. from the National Institute of Technology-Trichy in 2003.

Ranjan's research focuses on experimental and computational studies of multiphase flow and heat transfer phenomena, complex fluid flows involving shock and hydrodynamic instabilities, and turbulent mixing in extreme conditions such as supersonic and hypersonic flows. He directed the Shock Tube & Advanced Mixing Laboratory, advancing understanding in energy systems, scramjet engines, and inertial confinement fusion. His contributions include highly cited works such as "Shock-bubble interactions" in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (2011), "A computational parameter study for the three-dimensional shock–bubble interaction" in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2008), and "Ceramic–metal composites for heat exchangers in concentrated solar power plants" in Nature (2018). Ranjan received the ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (2023), ASME Fellow status, DOE Early Career Award (first at Georgia Tech), NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served on editorial boards for Shock Waves and ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, and participated in National Academy of Engineering programs.