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                    Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a physicist who has specialized in electroactive materials and mechanisms,
                    and ultrasonics nondestructive evaluation (NDE). A senior research scientist and group supervisor,
                    Advanced Technologies, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), he is also responsible for the
                    Nondestructive Evaluation and Advanced Actuators (NDEAA) Lab (http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/).
                    The NDEAA lab established in 1991 is listed on the JPL’s Chief Technologies as one of the JPL
                    unique facilities. Bar-Cohen is a fellow of two technical societies: The International Society for
                    Optical Engineering (SPIE) and American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT). He
                    received his PhD in Physics (1979) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. His notable
                    discoveries are the leaky Lamb waves (LLW) and polar backscattering phenomena in composite
                    materials. Bar-Cohen has over 280 publications as author and coauthor, and 16 registered patents.
                    He has made numerous presentations at national and international conferences and chaired and co-
                    chaired 27 conferences. As coauthor, editor, and coeditor, he has written and edited 4 books and 11
                    conference proceedings. He is the initiator of the SPIE Conference on electroactive polymers
                    (EAP), which he has been chairing since 1999. He challenged engineers worldwide to develop a
                    robotic arm driven by EAP to wrestle with humans and win, and he organized the competition as
                    part of the EAPAD conferences. The first of this competition took place on March 7, 2005. For his
                    contributions to the field of EAP, he has been named one of five technology gurus who are pushing
                    tech’s boundaries by Business Week in April 2003. His scientific and engineering accomplishments
                    have earned him many honors and awards including the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achieve-
                    ment Medal in 2001, two SPIE awards — the NDE Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) and the
                    Smart Materials and Structures Lifetime Achievement Award (2005).
























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