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Ya WANG, Ph.D Assistant Professor

State University of New York, Stony Brook Department of Mechanical Engineering

State University of New York, Stony Brook 153 Light Engineering,

Stony Brook, NY 11790 Phone: 631-632-8322, Email:ya.s.wang@stonybrook.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

v Smart Materials

v Vibration Control

v Energy Harvesting

v Multifunctional Structures with Integrated Sensing, Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control Abilities

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (05/2012), GPA 4.0/4.0, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, Advisor: Prof. Daniel J. Inman

Dissertation: Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control via Piezoelectric Materials

M.S. (06/2007), GPA: 4.0/4.0, Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR

Thesis: A Passive Wireless High Temperature Sensor for Harsh Environment Applications

B.S. (06/2004), GPA: 3.8/4.0, Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, China

Excellent Graduation Thesis Award: Mechanism Design and Motion Analysis of a Remote Mobile Robot

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Post-doc Research Fellow Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, USA, 05/2012 – 09/2013

v Active and Passive Control of Multifunctional Vascular Composites With Constraints

v Energy Harvesting from Rocket Launching using Stacked Piezoelectric Actuators

v Viscoelastic Modeling of Functionally Graded Hybrid Composites using Finite Element Method

Graduate Research Assistant Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, 07/2007 – 05/2012

v Electromechanical Modeling of a Multifunctional Wing with Sensing, Harvesting and Control Functions

v Design and Testing of an Autonomous Gust alleviation System for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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v Energy Harvesting from Ambient Vibrations and Solar via Monolithic Piezoelectric Materials

v Vibration Control using Reduced Energy Control Laws via Micro Fiber Composites

v Printable Circuit Board Design Integrating Energy Harvesting, Sensing, and Control Circuitry

v Intelligent Mobility Platform with Actuated Spoke System (IMPASS) Development

v Shortest Path Planning for IMPASS using Dynamic Programming and Skew Theory.

Graduate Research Assistant Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, 01/2006 – 06/2007

v RFID Passive Wireless Temperature Sensor Design and Fabrication as Micro Planar Multi-layer Film

v Capacitive -Temperature Sensitive Smart Material Investigation for Harsh Environment Applications

STUDENT ADVISING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. Individual Student Supervised

1. Pradyumna Srinivasan Master, Mechancial Engineering, University of Michigan, Summer 2013

Project: Vascular Fluid Damping of Flexural Cantilevers

2. Matthias Gaucher-Petitdemange Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers, Lille, France: 02/13 – present

Project: Finite Element Modeling of Multifunctional Vascular Composites With Constraints

3. Dong Yang Master, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan: 01/13 – present

Project: Damping Analysis of Multifunctional Vascular Composites Containing Internal Fluid Flow

4. Andrew Lee Master, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan: 09/12 – present

Project: Energy harvesting from Rocket Launching using stacked piezoceramic transducers

5. Alexis Briand Master, Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers, Norris, France: 09/12- 02/13

Project: Multifunctional wing spar Design using functionally graded composites

B. Other Teaching Activities

Graduate Course ME2024 Engineering Design and Economics Fall 2009

Undergraduate Course ME4005Automatic Control Fall 2006

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

1. Wang, Y., and Inman, D.J., 2013, Experimental and Finite Element Analysis for a Multifunctional Beam with

Active Constrained Layer with Frequency-dependent Viscoelastic Behavior, Journal of Sound and Vibration,

Vol. 332, Issue 23, pp. 6177-6191.

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2. Lee, A.J., Wang, Y., Inman, D. J., 2013, Energy Harvesting of Piezoelectric Stack Actuator from a Shock

Event, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (In Press).

3. Wang, Y. and Inman, D.J. 2013, Experimental Validation for a Multifunctional Wing Spar Design with

Sensing, Harvesting and Gust Alleviation Capabilities, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, Vol. 18,

No. 4, pp.1289-1299.

4. Wang, Y., and Inman, D.J., 2013, Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gust Alleviation for a

Multifunctional Wing Spar Using Reduced Energy Control via Piezoceramics, Journal of Composite

Materials, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp.125-146.

5. Wang, Y., and Inman, D.J., 2012, A Survey of Control Strategies for Simultaneous Vibration Suppression

and Energy Harvesting, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol.23, No.18, pp. 2021 -

2037.

6. Wang, Y., and Inman, D.J., 2011, Comparison of Control Laws for Vibration Suppression Based on Energy

Consumption, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 795-809.

7. Bilgen, O., Wang, Y., and Inman, D. J., 2011, Electromechanical comparison of cantilevered beams with

multifunctional piezoceramic devices, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing,Vol.27, pp. 763-777.

8. Wang, Y., Jia, Y., Chen, Q., and Wang, Y., 2008, A Passive Wireless Temperature Sensor for Harsh

Environment Applications, Sensors, Vol.12, No. 8, pp. 7982-7995.

9. Wang, Y., Zhang, J., 2005, Design of the Duct Cleaning Robot System for Central Air-conditioning, Journal

of Machine Design and Research, Vol21, No.6, pp. 47-49.

PUBLICATIONS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2013, Electronic Damping in Multifunctional Systems, Proceedings of ASME 2013

Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems SMASIS, Snowbird, Utah, USA,

16-18 September 2013.

2. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., Energy Harvesting of Piezoelectric Stack Actuator from A Shock Event, Proceedings

of the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in

Engineering Conference, Portland, OR, USA, 4-7 August 2013.

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3. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2013, Viscoelastic Modeling using Finite Element Method for Functional Graded

Composites for High Temperature Applications, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on

Composite Materials, Montreal, Canada, 28, July -2 August 2013.

4. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2013, Adaptive Multifunctional Composites, Proceedings of SPIE 2013 Defense

Security and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, 29 April -3 May 2013 (Invited Paper).

5. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2013, Experimental and Finite Element Analysis for a Multifunctional Beam with

Frequency-dependent Viscoelastic Behavior, Proceedings of the 54rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures,

Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 8-11 April 2013.

6. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2013, A Finite Element Modeling of a Multifunctional Hybrid Composite Beam with

Viscoelastic Materials, Proceedings of the 20th SPIE Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures

and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, 10-14 March

2013.

7. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2012, Viscoelastic Modeling of a Functionally Graded Composites Beam Using

Finite Element Modeling, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Adaptive Structures and

Technologies, Nanjing, China, 11-13, October 2012.

8. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2012, Experimental Validation of Simultaneous Gust Alleviation and Energy

Harvesting for Multifunctional Composite Wing Spars, Proceedings of ASME 2012 Conference on Smart

Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems SMASIS, Stone Mountain, GA, USA, 19-21 September

2012. (Best Student Hardware Competition Award)

9. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2012, Experimental Validation of a Multifunctional Wing Spar with Sensing, Control,

Harvesting and Storage Capabilities, Proceedings of the 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures,

Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 23-26 April 2012.

10. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2012, Experimental Characterization of Simultaneous Gust Alleviation and Energy

Harvesting for Multifunctional Wing Spars, Proceedings of the 19th SPIE Annual International Symposium on

Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA,

11-15 March 2012.

11. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2011, Gust Alleviation for UAVs Using a Multifunctional Piezoelectric Wing Spar,

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, Corfu, Greece,

10-12, October 2011.

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12. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2011, Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gust Alleviation for a Multifunctional

Wing Spar Using Reduced Energy Control Laws via Piezoceramics, Proceedings of ASME 2011Conference

on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems SMASIS, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 18-21

September 2011.

13. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2011, Composites with Simultaneous Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting and

Self-sensing Capabilities, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Composite Materials, Jeju

Island, South Korea, 21-26 August 2011.

14. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2011, Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Two Controllers for Vibration

Suppression with Minimum Energy, Proceedings of the 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures,

Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Denver, CO, USA, 4-7 April 2011.

15. Wang, Y., Inman, D.J., 2011, Energy-based Comparison of Various Controllers for Vibration Suppression

Using Piezoceramics, Proceedings of the 18th SPIE Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and

Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, 6-10 March 2011.

16. Wang, Y., Ren, P., Hong, D., 2010, Finding the Shortest Path for a Mobile Robot with Two Actuated

Spoke Wheels Based on Variable Kinematic Configurations, Proceedings of ASME 2010 International

Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering, Montreal, Quebec,

Canada. 15-18 August 2010.

17. Wang, Y., Hong, D., 2009, Motion Characteristics for the Kinematics Topologies of the IMPASS Robot,

Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, Gwangju, South

Korea, 28-31 October 2009.

18. Wang, Y., Ren, P., Hong, D., 2009, Gait and Gait Transition for a Robot with Two Actuated Spoke

Wheels, Proceedings of ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers

and Information in Engineering, San Diego, CA, USA, 20 Aug-2 September. 2009.

19. Jia, Y., Wang, Y., Performance Analysis of a Passive Wireless Temperature Sensor, Proceedings of 2009

NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 22-25 June 2009

20. Wang, Y., Ren, P., Hong, D., 2008, Mobility and Geometrical Analysis of a Two Actuated Spoke Wheel

Robot Modeled as a Mechanism with Variable Topology, Proceedings of ASME 2008 International Design

Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering, NYC, NY, USA, 3-6

August 2008.

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21. Ren, P., Wang, Y., Hong, D. W., Three-dimensional Kinematic Analysis of a Two Actuated Spoke Wheel

Robot Based on its Equivalency to a Serial Manipulator, Proceedings of ASME 2008 International Design

Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering, NYC, NY, USA, 3-6

August 2008.

22. Wang, Y., Yi Jia, Frederick Just-Agosto, Performance Analysis of a Passive Wireless Temperature Sensor,

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, 11-13 September 2007,

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

23. Wang, Y., Zhang, J., 2006, Autonomous Air Duct Cleaning Robot System, Proceedings of the 49th IEEE

International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, San Juan, Puerto Rico. USA, 6-9 August 2006.

HONORS AND AWARDS

A. 2012 Student Best Hardware Competition Award   in the 2012 ASME conference on Smart  Materials,  

Adaptive   Structures   and   Intelligent   Systems   for the paper titled “Experimental Validation of

Simultaneous Gust Alleviation and Energy Harvesting for Multifunctional Composite Wing Spar”

B. Invited Feature Article for the Journal of American Ceramic Society on “Energy Harvesting using

Piezoelectric Materials” to be published in August 2013.

Invited Paper   in the SPIE 2013 Defense Security and Sensing Symposium for the paper titled “Adaptive

Multifunctional Composites”.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

A. Technical Committee:

Elected Member, 2012-, ASME Aerospace Division, Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Branch

B. Conference Session Chair

SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2012, Active and Passive Control, San Diego, CA, U.S.A

SPIE Smart Structure/NDE 2013, Modeling of Energy Harvesting Systems II, San Diego, CA, U.S.A

C. Society Membership

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Member, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

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Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

D. Reviewer for Journals and Conferences

l Smart Materials and Structures (SMS)

l Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV)

l Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC)

l Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (JVA)

l Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (JIMSS)

l IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH)

l Information Systems Research (ISR)

l IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligent in Robotics and Automation (CIRA)

l IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

l ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC)

l ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS)