Bogdan Popa
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Bogdan-Ioan Popa (Co-PI) is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. He has created methods to design and realize tunable and active metamaterials with acoustic and electromagnetic properties on-demand for sound and radio wave manipulation. He also pioneered a specialized convolutional neural network-based perception model that mimics the echolocation abilities of animals such as dolphins and bats. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and is the recipient of national and international awards including International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award, Ad Astra Romania Excellence in Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, ZF Research Award.