Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Senior Research Scientist · Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) · company speakers →

Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a Senior Research Scientist and a Group Supervisor at Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) . He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1979. His research is focused on electroactive mechanisms, biomimetics and NDE. He has edited and coauthored 12 books, co-authored over 460 publications, and co-chaired 56 international conferences. He covered his co-conceived inventions in 42 registered patents and 135 New Technology Reports (NTR). His notable initiatives include the SPIE conference on electroactive polymers (EAP) and the EAP-in-Action Session that he chaired for 22 years as well as his challenging engineers and scientists worldwide to develop a robotic arm driven by artificial muscles to wrestle with human and win. For his contributions to the field of artificial muscles, Business Week named him in April 2003 one of five technology gurus who are 'Pushing Tech's Boundaries'. His scientific and engineering accomplishments earned him two NASA Honor Award Medals, two SPIE’s Lifetime Achievement Awards, Fellow of two technical societies: ASNT and SPIE, as well as many other honors and awards.

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