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October 25, 2023: HyungSuk Kwon has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled "Acoustic Metamaterials and Convolutional Neural Networks for Broadband Ultrasound Sensing"

October 19, 2023: Our paper titled "Ultrasound-Induced Impedance Reduction in Lithium Ion Batteries" has been published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society

October 5, 2023: Dr Ganesh Umesh Patil has joined our research group as a Postdoctoral Fellow

October 5, 2023: Dylan Kovacevich has been selected and participated in the ME Rising Stars workshop at UC Berkeley

November 2, 2022: Dylan Kovacevich has presented at the 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

November 1, 2022: Megan Hathcock has presented at the 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

October 18, 2022: Bogdan Popa has presented a seminar at the Physics Department, University of North Texas

September 19, 2022: Dr. Binh Truong has joined our group. Welcome Binh!

September 15, 2022: Bogdan Popa has presented an invited paper at the 16th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena

September 6, 2022: Our paper titled "Programmable bulk modulus in acoustic metamaterials composed of strongly interacting active cells" has been published in Applied Physics Letters and was selected as an Editor's Pick.

August 31, 2022: Utku Demir has joined our group. Welcome Utku!

August 13, 2022: Our paper titled "Learning the dynamics of metamaterials from diffracted waves with convolutional neural networks" has been published in Comunications Materials

July 21, 2022:  Bogdan Popa has presented an invited paper at the 12th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics  

June 28, 2022: Rana Dabaja has presented at the 17th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference

June 23, 2022: Bogdan Popa has presented at the 19th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

June 21, 2022: HyungSuk Kwon has presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Automotive Research Center

May 25, 2022: Dylan Kovacevich has presented at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

May 25, 2022: Bogdan Popa has presented an invited Hot Topics paper at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

March 4, 2022: Our group together with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon University, New College of Florida, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, University of Washington, University of Michigan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have received a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award titled "Neurobehavioral, Physiological, and Computational Processes of Auditory Object Learning in Mammals".

December 10, 2021: HyungSuk Kwon has passed the preliminary exam.

November 30, 2021: YeonJoon Cheong presented at the 181st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. YeonJoon's presentation has been highlighted on the conference website.

November 30, 2021: Nathan Geib presented at the 181st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

November 9, 2021: Dylan Kovacevich has passed the qualifying examination and became a PhD Candidate. 

October 29, 2021: Bogdan Popa presented the group's work on ultrasound-based perception algorithms at the Automotive Research Center monthly seminar.

October 20, 2021: Our paper titled "Acousto-optical metasurfaces for high-resolution acoustic imaging systems" by YeonJoon Cheong and Bogdan-Ioan Popa has been published in Physical Review B.

October 12, 2021: Our paper titled "Transformation acoustics with bulk media composed of polarized sources" by Dylan Kovacevich and Bogdan-Ioan Popa has been published in Physical Review B.

September 22, 2021: Our research on reconfigurable metamaterial lenses and bioinspired acoustic imaging was featured in EOS, the science news magazine of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

September 13, 2021: Our paper titled "Anomalous Reflection with Omnidirectional Active Metasurfaces Operating in Free Space" by Yuxin Zhai et al has been published in Physical Review Applied.

August 27, 2021: YeonJoon Cheong has successfully defended his dissertation titled "Strategies for Improving Acoustic Imaging Systems".

July 16, 2021: Bogdan Popa has received a National Science Foundation grant for the project titled "Dynamic Properties of Elastic Media Obtained with Self-Trained Convolutional Neural Networks".

July 14, 2021: Rana Dabaja has received the Best Poster Award at the ASME MSEC 2021 meeting. 

June 18, 2021: Our paper titled "Reconfigurable large-scale bulk metamaterials for broadband ultrasonics" by HyungSuk Kwon et al has been published in Smart Materials and Structures.

June 8, 2021: Nathan Geib presented at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

June 8, 2021: Bogdan Popa presented an invited talk at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

April 27, 2021: Our paper titled "Tunable nonlocal purely active nonreciprocal acoustic media" by Nathan Geib et al has been published in Physical Review B

April 8, 2021: Our paper titled "Origami inspired phononic structure with metamaterial inclusions for tunable angular wave steering" by Megan Hathcock et al has been published in the Journal of Applied Physics. The paper has been featured on the cover of the Journal of Applied Physics.

March 29, 2021: Our research on bioinspired sensing strategies has been featured on the Automotive research Center website.