Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Group Supervisor/Senior Research Scientist at Jet Propulsion Lab
SPIE Involvement:
Conference Program Committee | Author | Editor | Instructor
Area of Expertise:
Electro-active Polymers , Biomimetics , Piezoelectric driven mechanisms , Ultrasonic NDE
Websites:
Profile Summary

Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a Senior Research Scientist and Group Supervisor at JPL. He is also a Fellow of two technical societies, SPIE and ASNT. In his NDEAA lab (http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/), which he established in 1991, many novel methods and mechanisms were developed. He received his Ph. D. in Physics (1979) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He (co)authored over 380 publications, has 32-registered patents, he is the Editor and coauthor of 9 books, and he chaired (co)Chaired 48 Conferences and Symposia. He made two notable discoveries of ultrasonic wave phenomena in composite materials: the leaky Lamb waves (LLW) (1983) and the polar backscattering (1983). He is the initiator of the SPIE Conf. on electroactive polymers (EAP), chairing it since 1999, and his challenge wrestling match between an arm driven by EAP and human has become an annual highlight. In April 2003, Business Week named him as one of five technology gurus who are "Pushing Tech's Boundaries." Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). His scientific, engineering and technology accomplishments and leadership have earned him two NASA Honor Award Medals - NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal (2001), and NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement (2006), the JPL’s Magellan Award (2016) for extraordinary work in advancing the field of electroactive materials and mechanisms, two SPIE’s Lifetime Achievement Awards – NDE (2001) and Smart Materials and Structures (2005), the ASNT’s 2002 Lester Honor Lecture Award, the 2006

Visiting Lecturer Titles:
Biomimetics - Biologically Inspired Technologies.
Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles - Reality, Potential and Challenges
Humanlike Robots.
Planetary Sample Handling Using the Ultrasonic/Sonic Driller/Corer (USDC) Mechanism.
Publications (140)

Proceedings Article | 9 May 2024 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12950, 129500F (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3010158
KEYWORDS: Ice, Elasticity, Transducers, Acoustic waves, Signal attenuation, Acoustics

Proceedings Article | 9 May 2024 Paper
Proceedings Volume 12949, 129490I (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3026845
KEYWORDS: Actuators, Ferroelectric materials, Vibration, Cryogenics, Transducers, Piezoelectric materials, Industrial applications, Finite element methods

Proceedings Article | 9 May 2024 Paper
Proceedings Volume 12949, 129490P (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3023942
KEYWORDS: Ice, Acoustics, Signal attenuation, Transducers, Transceivers, RF communications, Glaciers, Telecommunications

Proceedings Article | 22 March 2021 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 11593, 1159322 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582582
KEYWORDS: Acoustics, Fiber optic communications, Wireless communications, Radioisotopes, RF communications, Optical communications, Solids, Solar system, Signal attenuation, Scattering

Proceedings Article | 22 March 2021 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 11591, 115910N (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582168
KEYWORDS: Sensor networks, Acoustics, Mars, Sensors, Diagnostics, Transducers, Solar system, Signal processing, Robots, Planets

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Proceedings Volume Editor (32)

SPIE Conference Volume | 21 May 2020

SPIE Conference Volume | 9 July 2019

SPIE Conference Volume | 27 July 2018

SPIE Conference Volume | 22 May 2017

SPIE Conference Volume | 18 July 2016