Prof. Ramesh Agarwal is the William Palm professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Over a period of 45 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational material science and manufacturing, and multi-disciplinary design and optimization. More recently, he has devoted some of his efforts in nanocomposites, shape memory alloys, and metamaterials. He is the author and co-author of over 600 publications and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. Professor Agarwal is a fellow of 25 societies including AIAA, IEEE, ASME, AAAS, APS, IOP, IOM3, IET, RSC, etc.