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Awards

2019 ENERGY HARVESTING BEST PAPER AWARDS Muhammad R. Hajj

Acoustic Holograms in Contactless Ultrasonic Power Transfer Systems:
Modeling and Experiment

Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 124, 244901

Biography

Marjan Bakhtiari-Nejad Muhammad R. Hajj is the George Meade Bond Professor, Chair of the
Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering and Director of
Biography the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology. Before joining
Marjan Bakhtiari-Nejad is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Stevens Institute of Technology in July 2018, Dr. Hajj was the J. Byron
Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. She received the Maupin Professor of Engineering and Director of the NSF funded I/UCRC
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems at Virginia Tech,
and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, respectively. Her research interests where he oversaw the development of industry-directed energy-related
include acoustic holography and contactless ultrasound acoustic energy science and technology research programs. At Virginia Tech, he also
transfer systems. served as the Associate Dean of Graduate School between 2014 and 2018
where he was involved in the implementation of the Transformative
Ahmed Elnahhas Graduate Education initiative. Dr. Hajj is a Fellow of the Engineering
Mechanics Institute and has served as an elected member of its Board of
Governors. Dr. Hajj received a B.Eng. degree (with distinction) from the
American University of Beirut. He received a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Texas at Austin. To date, he has advised and
directed research programs of 26 Ph.D. students who hold prestigious
academic and industry positions. He is the author/co-author of over 150
journal publications.

Biography

Ahmed Elnahhas is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at Stanford University. He received the B.S. degree in
Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Ahmed was MInDS
undergraduate researcher between 2016 and 2018, and was named top
graduating senior in the College of Engineering.

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