Prof. Alper Erturk (Fellow of ASME and SPIE) is the Woodruff Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he leads the Smart Structures and Dynamical Systems Laboratory. He has published more than 200 articles in archival journals and conference proceedings, 4 book chapters, and 2 books (total citations around 13,000 and h-index: 51). He received various awards including the NSF CAREER Award, ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award for early career impact in the field of adaptive structures and material systems, ASME C.D. Mote Jr. Early Career Award for demonstrated research excellence in the field of vibration and acoustics, SEM James W. Dally Young Investigator Award for demonstrated research excellence in experimental mechanics, and two ASME Energy Harvesting Best Paper Awards, among others.