Antanas Daugela was born on April 21, 1967 in Kaunas, the second largest city of Lithuania. He graduated as one of the top ten MS students from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania in 1990 http://www.ktu.lt/en/. For a year he worked as a research scientist at the Department of Manufacturing Systems at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania and for Kiev Majak Co. investigating dynamics of tape recorders by a newly developed ultrasonic sensor. After passing the qualifying exams he was admitted to the Doctoral program at Kaunas University of Technology and joined the lab of Prof. R. Bansevicius which specializes in resonance sensors and ultrasonic motors. Here, he pursued research on nondestructive testing of metals and elastic polymers by means of ultrasonic contact impedance and AE sensors. As a successful researcher, he received the Sorosh Fund (USA) and Vaicaitis (USA) grants for presenting his research at the National Physical Laboratory, London in 1991 and the Dundee Mechatronics Center (UK) in 1992. In 1992 he was awarded the title of "the best PhD student at Kaunas University of Technology". His PhD degree was conferred in March 1995. In 1996 he was awarded a title "the most productive Young Scientist of the year at Kaunas University of Technology ".
During January 1993 - April 1997 he received a Japanese Government "Monbusho" grant for continuing research at Prof. Hiroshi Fujii's Lab in Gifu University, Japan. In Japan he conducted experiments and theoretical work on non-destructive testing of elastic polymers. Also, he designed and built a piezo actuator/sensor based mili sized robot and PVDF based sensor for blood flow and pulse monitoring. The research at Gifu University was extended to a second PhD, which was conferred in June 1997. While in Japan he had an internship at Tokai Rubber Co (Aichi) in 1996 and did consulting on Finite Element Modeling of piezo actuators for the Nikon Co. Actuator Division (Tokyo) in 1996-7.
From April to November 1997 he held a postdoctoral researcher position at the Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Department at University of California, San Diego where he designed, modeled and built a linear ultrasonic motor.
Since November 1997 he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Prof. Talke's lab in the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at University of California, San Diego. where he is working on the experimental investigation of alternative substrate HDD disk flutter and FEM modeling of HDD piezo active suspension.
His research interests include, but are not limited to design, FEM modeling and experimental aspects of piezo sensors for non-destructive testing and resonance actuators for micro and nano-positioning. Dr. A. Daugela is an author and co-author of more than 30 scientific papers published in English, Japanese and Russian. He has presented his research at more than 20 International Conferences held in Japan, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany.
Dr. A. Daugela is fluent in several languages: English, Russian, Japanese and Lithuanian (native).
List of publications is available.
Last updated: January 8, 1999