Huidan (Whitney) Yu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University Indianapolis
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University West Lafayette
SL 260
723 W. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
723 W. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 765-495-7752
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Degrees
- Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Ph.D. Physics, Peking University, China
- B.S. Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Research Interests
- Image-based computational and experimental fluid dynamics for porous-media and biomedical flows
- Translational research integrating high-performance CFD, image-based and physics-informed machine-learning, and uncertainty quantification to address unmet clinical needs
- GPU-parallelized lattice Boltzmann method for DNS and LES of turbulence
- Micro-bubble coalescence and detachment in microfluidics
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Biography
Awards and Recognitions
- Winner of Disease Diagnostics INventors Challenge competition, Indiana CTSI (Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute), 2019
- Best poster award in The 2017 IEEE Central Indiana section’s Engineering Conference, entitled “InVascular: Filling the Gap between Non-invasive and Patient-specific Diagnose/Assessment and Cardiovascular Diseases/Surgeries”, 2017
- IU Health Vice President (Cardiovascular Service Line Executive) Research Award for developing minimally invasive surgical techniques for the innovation and advance of heart transplantation, 2016
- EMPOWER Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI, 2014
- NSF CAREER Jump Start Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI, 2012
- Excellent Ph. D. Student Prize, Peking University, China, 1999
- The Seventh Youth Scientific Paper Competition – The Second Prize, Peking University, China. 1999.
- Scientific Paper Competition – The Third Prize, Education Committee of Zhejiang Province, China. 1999