Kon-Well Wang
A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Kon-Well Wang (PI) is the A. Galip Ulsoy Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the U-M. He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Wang is well known for his research in the emerging fields of structural dynamics & controls, especially in pioneering adaptive structures and material systems, such as reconfigurable origami structures and metamaterials that can on-demand alter their configurations, properties and dynamics with autonomy, for beamforming, wave steering, and vibration controls. He has published over 400 technical articles and books, and is the holder of several patents. He has given over 180 invited talks, including over 60 keynote/plenary, distinguished, or named lectures. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Physics, and the Royal Aeronautical Society. He has received numerous top awards in his field, such as the ASME Honorary Member, the ASME J.P Den Hartog Award, the SPIE Smart Structures & Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, and the ASME Adaptive Structures & Materials Systems Prize.