Rishikesh Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan

Dr. Rishikesh Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, known professionally as Dr. S G, joined Florida Polytechnic University in Fall 2025 as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His research centers on advanced manufacturing approaches for multifunctional smart devices and embedded sensing systems. He works on the design, fabrication, and material characterization of MEMS-enabled and additively manufactured sensors for aerospace, infrastructure, and structural health monitoring. His work enables integrated systems that connect materials, manufacturing, and sensing technologies.

Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan is actively engaged in professional service through reputable engineering and scientific societies, contributing to technical committees, conference organization, and community-focused research initiatives. In his teaching, he emphasizes a strong foundation in engineering principles, linking theory, materials behavior, and manufacturing processes to practical engineering problems.

Education

• Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2024
• M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2020
• B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering, Anna University, 2017

Expertise

• Additive Manufacturing
• MEMS Devices
• Smart Materials
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Material Characterization

Professional Activities

• Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Member, International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
• Reviewer, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
• Reviewer, Scientific Reports

Select Publications

• Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Tobin, M., Dohner, F., Kim, D., Vu, J. B., & Madiyar, F. (2025). Dual-Layer Capacitive Sensor for Enhanced Pressure Detection. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (p. 1029).
• Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Tobin, M., Ren, Z., Ricciardella, M., Madiyar, F., & Kim, D. (2025). Ethanol detection and monitoring using surface acoustic wave sensor. In Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, Civil Infrastructure, and Transportation XIX (Vol. 13436, pp. 55-61). SPIE.
• Ren, Z., Yang, Z., Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Tang, K., Xu, S., Cheng, M., & Kim, D. (2025). Two-Photon Polymerization of Bioinspired Microstructure with Tunable Wettability Controlled by Dielectric Elastomer Actuator. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
• Reed, N., Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Stein, Z., Raghavan, S., & Kim, D. (2025, May). In-situ embedded strain sensing for additively manufactured multimaterial ceramics via piezospectroscopy. In Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, Civil Infrastructure, and Transportation XIX (Vol. 13436, pp. 132-138). SPIE.
• Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Ren, Z., Melendez, I., Boetcher, S. K., Madiyar, F., & Kim, D. (2024). Polymer nanocomposite sensors with improved piezoelectric properties through additive manufacturing. Sensors, 24(9), 2694.
• Sikulskyi, S., Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Stark, T., Ren, Z., Reed, N., & Kim, D. (2024). Two-photon polymerized wetting morphologies for tunable external and internal electrode micropatterning. Additive Manufacturing, 86, 104220.
• Reed, N., Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Perry, S., Coote, K., & Kim, D. (2024). Development of Additively Manufactured Embedded Ceramic Temperature Sensors via Vat Photopolymerization. Crystals, 14(11), 936.
• Ren, Z., Yang, Z., Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Madiyar, F., Cheng, M., Kim, D., & Jiang, Y. (2024). Two-photon polymerization of butterfly wing scale inspired surfaces with anisotropic wettability. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(7), 9362-9370.
• Srinivasaraghavan Govindarajan, R., Sikulskyi, S., Ren, Z., Stark, T., & Kim, D. (2023). Characterization of photocurable IP-PDMS for soft micro systems fabricated by two-photon polymerization 3D printing. Polymers, 15(22), 4377.