Steven Cummer

William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University

About

William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University with expertise in electromagnetic and acoustic wave interaction with complex materials and structures, lightning and atmospheric electricity, and space and terrestrial radio remote sensing. Fellow of IEEE and AGU, highly cited researcher with extensive external research funding and over 320 refereed journal publications.

Publications

A transfer matrix approach for characterizing spherically symmetric acoustic metamaterials and structures

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2026

Design and analysis of asymmetric vision from a plume of oriented synthetic aerosol particles

Applied Optics

2025

Ultra-broadband acoustic metamaterial lens for loudspeaker directivity control

Applied Physics Letters

2025

Continental‐Scale Lightning Observations at High Frequency

Geophysical Research Letters

2025

Topological acoustofluidics

Nature Materials

2025

Observation of two-dimensional acoustic bound states in the continuum

Communications Physics

2024

Multi‐Layer Evolution of Acoustic‐Gravity Waves and Ionospheric Disturbances Over the United States After the 2022 Hunga Tonga Volcano Eruption

AGU Advances

2023

Ultra-broadband low-frequency high-efficiency acoustic energy harvesting with metamaterial-enhanced loudspeakers

Applied Physics Letters

2023

Education

Stanford University

B.S. (with distinction), Electrical Engineering / 1991

Stanford University

M.S., Electrical Engineering / 1993

Stanford University

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering / 1997

Experience

Duke University

William H. Younger Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering / January, 2019 — October

Endowed chair professorship leading advanced research in electromagnetic and acoustic metamaterials, wave interactions, and remote sensing.

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / January, 2012 — December, 2019

Professor conducting teaching and research in wave propagation, electrodynamics, and atmospheric electricity.

Jeffrey N. Vinik Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering / January, 2007 — December, 2011

Associate professorship in electrical and computer engineering.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / January, 2000 — December, 2006

Tenure-track assistant professor position focused on electromagnetic wave modeling, ionospheric remote sensing, and curriculum development.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate / January, 1997 — December, 1999

Postdoctoral research in space science, geophysical remote sensing, and electromagnetic wave propagation.

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