Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering
| osama.bilal@uconn.edu | |
| Mailing Address | School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Rd. U-3139, Storrs, CT 06269 |
| Campus | Storrs |
| Link | Lab Group |
| Google Scholar Link | |
Brief Bio
Dr. Osama Bilal is interested in designing intelligent, autonomous and multifunctional structures and materials through understanding of correlations between geometry, symmetry, periodicity and mechanical properties. His research interests spans dynamics of structures and materials, acoustic metamaterials, soft robotics, additive manufacturing, origami, topology optimization, haptics and fluid-structure interaction. The research combines theory, numerical simulations and experiments spanning micro and macro scales.
Osama received his training at Caltech, ETH Zurich, CU-Boulder and Cairo University in aerospace and mechanical engineering, computer science and condensed matter physics. His research is published in multidisciplinary outlets such as Nature, the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, etc. His work is highlighted in national and international media, including MSNBC, ABC news, Yahoo, Science Daily, CBC and Physics Today among others. He is awarded a few patents and is recognized by several awards including the ARL postdoctoral fellowship (Army), ETH postdoctoral fellowship (ETH), the Graduate Student Service Award (CU-Boulder), the International Student Award (CU-Boulder), the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (CU-Boulder) and the Phononics Fellowship (National Science Foundation), among others.
- Applied Mechanics and Advanced Materials Processing
- computational design
- Robotics, Dynamics,
- Sensing and Control
36. Bedard, J., J. Franklin, Z. Ritchey, Roshdy M, Bilal O. R. M. Jain, and I. Sochnikov.
"Modular cryogenic piezoelectric scanner for scanning SQUID microscopy."
AIP Advances 15, 035112, 2025.
35. Roshdy M., Bilal O.R.
"Static and dynamic analysis of auxetic three-dimensional curved metamaterials in both axial and circumferential directions"
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 75, 102285, 2025.
34. Samak M M., Bilal O.R.
"Direct Observation of All-Flat Bands Phononic Metamaterials"
Physical Review Letters, 133, 266101, 2024.
33. Stenseng N., Samak M M., Bilal O.R.
"Bistable Metamaterials with Intrinsic Memory for Selective Wave Filtering based on Frequency and Amplitude"
Advanced Science, 2405146, 2024.
32. Roshdy M., Bilal O. R.,
"Observation of Ferroelectric Programmability in 3D Printed Metamaterials"
Advanced Materials Technologies, 2301562, 2024.
31. Samak M M., Bilal O. R.,
"Evidence of zero group velocity at the lowest dispersion branch through local interactions"
APL Materials, 12, 1, 2024.
30. Kheybari M., Bilal O. R.,
"Harnessing asymmetry to reprogram nonlinear metamaterials on-the-fly with no moving parts"
Materials & Design, 233,112168, 2023.
29. Chorsi M., Le T., Lin F., Vinikoor T., Das R., Stevens J., Mundrane C., ...,Morales M., Bilal O. R., Kazerounian K., Ilies H., Nguyen T.
"Highly piezoelectric, biodegradable, and flexible amino acid nanofibers for medical applications"
Science Advances, 9, 24, 2023.
28. Roshdy M., Chen T., Nakhmanson S., Bilal O. R.,
"Tunable ferroelectric auxetic metamaterials for guiding elastic waves in three-dimensions"
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 59, 101966, 2023.
27. Krushynska A. O., Torrent D., Aragón A. M., Ardito R. , Bilal O. R., ...
"Emerging topics in nanophononics and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials: An overview"
Nanophotonics, 0671, 2023.
26. Mazzotti M., Foehr A., Bilal O. R., Bergamini A., Bosia F, Daraio C., Pugno NM, Miniaci M
"Bio-inspired non self-similar hierarchical elastic metamaterials"
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 241, 107915, 2023.
25. Eichelberg A., Watkins A. A., Bilal O.R.,
"Metamaterials with reprogrammable reciprocity"
Physical Review Applied, 18, 054049, 2022.
24. Kheybari M., Daraio C., Bilal O. R.,
"Tunable auxetic metamaterials for simultaneous attenuation of airborne sound and elastic vibrations in all directions"
Applied Physics Letters, 121, 081702, 2022. (Editor's pick)
23. Kheybari M., Wang Z., Xu H., Bilal O. R.,
"Programmability of ultrathin metasurfaces through curvature"
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 101620, 2022.
22. Watkins A. A., Eichelberg A., Bilal O. R.,
"Harnessing re-programmable phase transitions to control the propagation of sound waves"
Physical Review Applied, 17.2, 024036, 2022. (Editor's choice)
21. Le T., Curry E., Vinikoor T., Das R., Liu Y., Sheets D., Tran K., Hawxhurst C., Stevens J., Hancock J., Bilal O.R., Shor L.M, Nguyen T.D. "Piezoelectric Nanofiber Membrane for Reusable, Stable, and Highly Functional Face Mask Filter with Long-Term Biodegradability"
Advanced Functional Materials, 2113040, 2022.
20. Watkins A. A.*, Eichelberg A.*, Bilal O. R.,
"Exploiting Localized Transition Waves to Tune Sound Propagation in Soft Materials". *equal contribution
Physical Review B, 104, L140101, 2021.
19. Norouzi E.*, Watkins A. A.*, Bilal O. R.,
"Classification of emerging patterns in self-assembled two-dimensional magnetic lattices". *equal contribution
Physical Review E, 104, 044902, 2021.
18. Bilal O.R., Yee C. H., Rys J., Schumacher C., Daraio C.,
"Experimental realization of phonon demultiplexing in three-dimensions"
Applied Physics Letters, 118, 091901, 2021.
17. Watkins A. A., Bilal O. R.,
"Demultiplexing infrasound phonons with tunable magnetic lattices"
Frontiers in Materials, 7, 410, 2020 (invited paper: Rising Stars 2020).
16. Bilal O. R., Costanza V., Israr A., Palermo A., Celli P., Lau F., Daraio C.,
"A flexible metasurface as a versatile haptic interface".
Advanced Materials Technologies, 2000181, 2020.
15. Bilal O. R., Foehr A., Daraio C.,
"Enhancement of deep-subwavelength band gaps in flat spiral-based phononic metamaterials using the trampoline phenomena".
Journal of Applied Mechanics, 87, 7, 2020.
14. Chen T., Bilal O.R., Lang R., Daraio C. and Shea K.,
"Autonomous deployment of a solar panel using an elastic origami and distributed shape memory polymer actuators".
Physical Review Applied, 11, 064069, 2019.
13. Bilal O.R., Ballagi D. and Daraio C.,
"Architected lattices for simultaneous broadband attenuation of airborne sound and mechanical vibrations in all directions".
Physical Review Applied,10, 054060, 2018.
12. Bilal O.R.*, Chen T.*, Shea K. and Daraio C.,
"Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of untethered, soft robots". *equal contribution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, 115 (22), 5698-5702, 2018.
11. Bilal O.R.*, Foehr A.*, Huber S.D, Daraio C.,
"Spiral-based phononic plates: From wave beaming to topological insulators. *equal contribution
Physical Review Letters, 120, 205501, 2018.
10. Serra-Garcia M., Peri V., Süsstrunk R., Bilal O. R., Larsen T., Villanueva G. and Huber S.,
"Observation of a phononic quadrupole topological insulator",
Nature, 555, 342–345, 2018.
9. Bauhofer A., Krödel S., Rys J., Bilal O. R., Constantinescu A. and Daraio C.,
"Harnessing Photochemical Shrinkage in Direct Laser Writing for Shape Morphing of Polymer Sheets",
Advanced Materials, 29 (42) 2017.
8. Bilal O. R., Foehr A., Daraio C.,
"Observation of trampoline phenomena in 3D-printed metamaterial plates",
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 15, 103-107, 2017.
7. Bilal O. R., Foehr A., Daraio C.,
"Reprogrammable phononic metasurfaces",
Advanced Materials, 29 (38), 201700628, 2017.
6. Bilal O. R., Foehr A., Daraio C.,
"Bistable metamaterial for switching and amplifying elastic vibrations",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS 114 (18) 4603-4606, 2017.
5. Bilal O. R., Süsstrunk R., Daraio C., Huber S. D,
"Intrinsically polar elastic metamaterils",
Advanced Materials, 29 (26), 1700540, 2017.
4. Frandsen N. M., Bilal O. R., Jensen J. S. and Hussein M. I.,
"Inertial amplification of continuous structures: Large band gaps from small masses",
Journal of Applied Physics, 119 (12), 124902, 2016.
3. Hussein M. I., Biringen S., Bilal O. R. and Kucala A.,
"Flow Stabilization by Subsurface Phonons",
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 471, 20140928, 2015.
2. Bilal O. R. and Hussein M. I.,
"Trampoline Metamaterial: Local Resonance Enhancement by Springboards",
Applied Physics Letters, 103, 111901, 2013.
1. Bilal O. R. and Hussein M. I.,
"Ultrawide Phononic Band Gap for Combined In-plane and Out-of-plane Waves",
Physical Review E, 84, 065701(R), 2011.