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)

Courses

Next Offered
Fall 2025
Open
Course Format
Asynchronous Online
Primary Program
Mechanical Engineering
Location
Online
Next Offered
TBD
Course Format
Asynchronous Online
Primary Program
Mechanical Engineering
Location
Online