Shane Lani

Shane Lani received his PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a BS in Engineering Science from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University.  He was an acoustic research engineer at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL), and a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) prior to his current position at JHU/APL as a scientist with a focus on Anti-Submarine Warfare technologies. His research interests include antisubmarine warfare technologies, sensor design, acoustic testing and evaluation, passive acoustic imaging, metamaterials, and acoustic signal processing.

Education History

• BS, Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
• BS, Engineering Science, Pennsylvania State University
• PHD, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Work Experience

Senior Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Publications

[1] W.J. Tyler, S. Lani, and G. Hwang, “Ultrasonic modulation of neural circuit activity,” Curr Op. in Neuro., 50, 222-231, (2018).
[2] Shane Lani, K. G. Sabra, and F. L. Degertekin, “Super-resolution imaging of stiffness variations on a microscale active metasurface,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 084104 (2016)
[3] Shane Lani, K. G. Sabra, and F. L. Degertekin, “Modal and transient analysis of membrane acoustic metasurfaces,” J. Appl. Phys., 117, 045308, (2015).
[4] Shane Lani, M. Wasequr Rashid, Jennifer Hasler, Karim G. Sabra, and F. Levent Degertekin, “Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays as tunable acoustic metamaterials,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 104 , 051914 (2014)
[5] Shane Lani, Karim G. Sabra, William S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, and Philippe Roux, “Coherent processing of shipping noise for ocean monitoring,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 133, pp. EL108-EL113, Feb. (2013).
[6] Charlotte Leroy, Shane Lani, Karim G. Sabra, William S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, and Philippe Roux, “Enhancing the emergence rate of coherent wavefronts from ocean ambient noise correlations using spatio-temporal filters,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 132, pp. 883-893, Aug. (2012).

Professional Organizations

IEEE
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)