Ganesh U. Patil
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Contact: gupatil@aero.iitb.ac.in | AE 201-E
2023 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2019 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2014 B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
2011 LME Mechanical Engineering, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
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CV_GaneshPatil.pdfGanesh joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay as a faculty member in September 2026. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he was also selected as a 2025 Postdoctoral Affiliate of the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS). His research interests lie at the intersection of wave mechanics, engineered materials, sensing, and data-driven methods, with a focus on understanding, shaping, and interpreting wave-material interactions. His research and teaching have received several recognitions, including the 2026 Empowering Research with AI Award from the AI Institute at Michigan, the 2024 USNC/TAM 5-Minute Thesis (5MT) PhD Thesis in Mechanics Competition Award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and Best Paper Awards from the Acoustical Society of America in 2020 and 2022. His teaching has been recognized through the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, MechSE Teaching Fellowship, and James O. Smith TAM Teaching Assistant Award. Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Ganesh spent three years in industrial research at Bajaj Auto Ltd., Pune, working on problems in vibration and durability. He is also a recipient of the Lord Reay and Dadabhoy Naoroji Gold Medals from VJTI.
The Team
We are building our team!
The Patil Research Group is looking for motivated students and researchers interested in wave physics, engineered materials, sensing, computational mechanics, vibration experiments, and data-driven methods. We welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and IIT Bombay students (M.Tech, Dual-Degree, and B.Tech) interested in research opportunities.
Previous Research Mentees
Before establishing the Patil Research Group at IIT Bombay, Ganesh had worked with and mentored several undergraduate researchers. Their research led to publications, symposium presentations, and student research awards. Some highlights from their work are shown below.
Songyuan Cui
Mechanical Engineering, UIUC
Outstanding Presentation Award, Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2021
Publication: G. U. Patil, Songyuan Cui, K. H. Matlack, Leveraging nonlinear wave mixing in rough contacts-based phononic diodes for tunable nonreciprocal waves. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 55, 101821 (2022). [Link]
Now: Ph.D. Student, UIUC, Advisor: Prof. Mattia Gazzola
Thomas (Tommy) Block
Mechanical Engineering, UIUC
Now: Mechanical Engineer at Woodward, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Aditya Shedge
Mechanical Engineering, UIUC
Poster Presentation at Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2019
Publication: G. U. Patil, A.S. Shedge, K. H. Matlack, 3D auxetic lattice materials for anomalous elastic wave polarization. Applied Physics Letters, vol.115, 091902 (2019). [Link]
Now: Ph.D. Student, Caltech, Advisor: Prof. G. Ravichandran
Edgar Becerra
Associate in Engineering Science, Parkland College
Oral and Poster Presentation at the Illinois Summer Research Symposium, 2019
NSF EFRI-REM program participant