Ganesh Balasubramanian is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at Lehigh University. Previously he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his BME degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2007, his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2011, and was a postdoctoral research associate in the Theoretical Physical Chemistry unit at TU Darmstadt in Germany till 2012. His research and teaching interests are in computational materials engineering, strongly disordered materials, and nanoscale transport and mechanics. Some of his recognitions include the ASEE Outstanding New ME Educator award, AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship, Miller Faculty Fellowship at Iowa State, the Graduate Man of the Year and Liviu Librescu Scholarship at Virginia Tech, Young Engineering Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Science.