Steven A. Cummer, Professor, Bass Fellow of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Jeffrey N. Vinik Associate Professor of Pratt School of Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies

Dr. Steven Cummer received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997 and prior to joining Duke University in 1999 he spent two years at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as an NRC postdoctoral research associate. Awards he has received include a National Science Foundation CAREER award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001. His current work is in a variety of theoretical and experimental electromagnetic problems related to geophysical remote sensing and engineered electromagnetic materials.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	3455 CIEMAS
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5256
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.ee.duke.edu/~cummer/

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• ECE 270DL.001, FIELDS AND WAVES Synopsis

  Fitzpatrk 1464, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• ECE 270DL.01D, FIELDS AND WAVES Synopsis

  Fitzpatrk 1464, F 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

Ph.D.	Stanford University	1997
M.S.E.E.	Stanford University	1993
B.S.E.E.	Stanford University	1991

Specialties:

Geophysics
Photonics
Atmospheric Science
Metamaterials
Electromagnetics

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Pu, Y; Cummer, SA; Lyu, F; Zheng, Y; Briggs, MS; Lesage, S; Mailyan, B; Roberts, OJ, Unsupervised Clustering and Supervised Machine Learning for Lightning Classification: Application to Identifying EIPs for Ground-Based TGF Detection, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 128 no. 9 (May, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
2. Shen, C; Rohde, C; Cushing, CW; Li, J; Tan, ZJ; Du, H; Peng, X; Wilson, PS; Haberman, MR; Fang, NX; Cummer, SA, Anisotropic Metallic Microlattice Structures for Underwater Operations, Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 25 no. 6 (March, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
3. Shen, L; Tai, J; Crivoi, A; Li, J; Cummer, S; Fan, Z, Self-stabilizing three-dimensional particle manipulation via a single-transducer acoustic tweezer, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 122 no. 9 (February, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
4. Huang, A; Cummer, SA; Pu, Y; Chanrion, OA; Neubert, T; Reglero, V; Østgaard, N, Transition in Optical and Radio Features During the Early Development of Negative Intracloud Leader, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 49 no. 22 (November, 2022) [doi]  [abs]
5. Huang, L; Jia, B; Pilipchuk, AS; Chiang, Y; Huang, S; Li, J; Shen, C; Bulgakov, EN; Deng, F; Powell, DA; Cummer, SA; Li, Y; Sadreev, AF; Miroshnichenko, AE, General Framework of Bound States in the Continuum in an Open Acoustic Resonator, Physical Review Applied, vol. 18 no. 5 (November, 2022) [doi]  [abs]