Postdoctoral Researcher - Dynamics, Controls, and Vibrations; DynaGence Lab

Job : 304903
Location: Marietta, Georgia
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University isone of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia.

We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower over 50,000 students to become thought leaders,lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division Iathletics draw students from throughout the region and from morethan 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice.

We are part of the University System of Georgia. Weare searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU!

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Job Responsibilities ) Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000

Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144.

Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

• Design, fabricate, and instrument bio-inspired underwater robottestbeds, including compliant propulsors, embedded sensing, and onboard control hardware.
• Build and characterize acoustic metamaterial and transducerassemblies, and 3D-printed skull and tissue-mimicking phantoms forultrasound testing.
• Conduct laboratory and water-tank experiments using high-speedimaging, hydrophones, accelerometers, and data acquisition systems.
• Perform system identification of measured nonlinear dynamics and develop physics-informed machine learning models from experimental data.
• Design, implement, and tune adaptive and nonlinear controllerson embedded hardware, and validate them in closed-loop operation.
• Develop finite element and wave-propagation models and correlatethem against experimental measurements.
• Provide day-to-day technical supervision of one doctoral student and two undergraduate researchers, including equipment training and laboratory safety.
• Maintain laboratory equipment, calibration records, data management practices, and version controlled analysis code.
• Contribute preliminary data, figures, and technical text tofederal proposals to agencies such as NSF, ONR, DARPA, AFOSR, and NIH.

• Knowledge of dynamical systems, vibration, and wave propagationin solids and fluids.
• Skill in system identification and parameter estimation fromnoisy experimental time-series data.
• Ability to design and implement feedback control on embedded platforms such as microcontrollers and ROS.
• Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink and Python for modeling, signal processing, and machine learning.
• Working knowledge of finite element analysis and acoustic orelastic wave simulation.
• Skill in mechanical fabrication and prototyping, includingadditive manufacturing and compliant structures.
• Ability to plan, execute, and document laboratory experimentsinvolving water tanks, acoustic transducers, and high-speed imaging.
• Ability to communicate technical results in peer-reviewedmanuscripts and in federal proposal text.

• Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, applied physics, or a closely related field.
• Research experience in acoustics, ultrasound, guided…