Peter L Bishay

Dr. Peter L. Bishay is a mechanical engineering professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and the director of the "Design SMART" Laboratory (Design of Smart Mechanical and Reconfigurable Technologies). His research interests include morphing aerospace structures, prosthesis design and control, composite and smart structures, computational mechanics, and engineering education. His research was supported by the NSF, DoD, and NASA. Dr. Bishay is a recipient of multiple prestigious awards, such as the "Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award" (2017), the "Future Technology Leader Award" (2018), the "Distinguished Engineering Educator Achievement Award" (2022) from The Engineer's Council, the "Outstanding New Researcher Award" (2021), the "Highly Influential and Sustained Innovation Award" (2021), and the "CSUN Distinguished Teaching Award" (2024) from CSUN. He was named the 2025 Jerome Richfield Memorial Fellow at CSUN.