01 / TIME-VARYING MEDIA
Turning time into a tool for wave control
Experimental observation of temporal refraction and reflection in elastic beams, using piezoelectric patches and time-varying transfer functions.
Nature Communications ↗Engineering
environments.
Exploring new wave physics.
I engineer interactions between physical systems and their environments to realize unconventional effective dynamics. Through active metamaterials, I create platforms to explore new wave physics.
Wave Physics & Active Metamaterials
Explore the design principle ↗ A FEW THREADS OF MY WORK
All research ↗Selected research
02 / TOPOLOGICAL WAVES
Steering surface waves through topology
Smart surface patterning connects a tight-binding model and WKB analysis with experimental topological pumping of elastic surface waves.
Science Advances ↗
03 / ACTIVE METAMATERIALS
Beyond classical effective media
Effective medium descriptions of active, nonlocal Willis metabeams connect engineered couplings with directional amplification and non-Hermitian wave behavior.
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids ↗FROM THEORY TO EXPERIMENT
All publications ↗Recent publications
Hierarchical effective modeling of elastic lattice metamaterials: Micro-inertia and frequency-dependent modulus characterization
↗Journal of Sound and Vibration, 643, 119973.
Non-Hermitian topological enhanced electromechanical impedance method for ultrasensitive damage detection
↗International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 111639.
Dynamic Willis-framework homogenization for metabeams with active scatterers
↗Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106548.
Elastodynamics of two-dimensional odd mechanical media: Theory, homogenization and wave characterization
↗Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106502.