Welcome to the Healthcare Ergonomics Analytics Lab (HEAL)!

Welcome to the Healthcare Ergonomics Analytics Lab (HEAL)!

Our current research links the areas of human factors engineering, biobehavioral sensing, and technology design, with applications in enhancing human performance across domains such as healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. On-going research thrusts include:

1. Neuroadaptive systems for supporting human machine interaction

2. Interventions for enhancing user physical performance

3. Physiological and machine learning for modeling user real-time cognitive states

4. Biobehavioral sensing for automated non-technical team skills assessments

5. Computer vision, and artificial intelligence techniques for physical ergonomics

6. Big data analytics for understanding human health behaviors



Interested? Please contact me - I look forward to talking with you.

Denny Yu, PhD, CPE
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
(Courtesy appointment in School of Health Sciences)
Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellow

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Principal Investigator

Denny Yu

Denny Yu
Associate Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

Quantifying intraoperative workload

Developing patient factors based workload models

Medical device design and usability testing

Integrating wearable sensor devices to develop intelligent health systems

Graduate Students

Nicholas Anton

Nicholas Anton
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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anton5@purdue.edu

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Haozhi Chen

Haozhi Chen
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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chen1809@purdue.edu

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Peiran Liu

Peiran Liu
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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liu3820@purdue.edu

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Poushali Ray
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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Gaoyuan Tu
MS Thesis Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

tu87@purdue.edu

Ryan Villarreal
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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villar10@purdue.edu



Jingkun Wang
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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jingkun@purdue.edu

Bowen Zhang
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

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​zhan4492@purdue.edu

William Zouzas
Graduate Research Assistant - Bridge

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wzouzas@purdue.edu

Recent Alumni

Mina Ostovari
PhD Alumna

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Jackie Cha
PhD Alumna

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Quang Dao
PhD Alumnus (Co-advised by Dr. Steven Landry)

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Hamed Asadi
PhD Alumnus

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Denys Bulikhov
PhD Alumnus (Co-advised by Dr. Steven Landry)

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Jing Yang
PhD Alumna

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Guoyang Zhou
PhD Alumnus

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Chiho Lim
PhD Alumna

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Marian Obuseh
PhD Alumna

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Chuhao Wu
MS Thesis Alumnus

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Yuhao Peng
MS Thesis Alumnus

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Guoyang Zhou
MS Thesis Alumnus

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Ryan Villarreal
MS Thesis Alumnus

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Jingkun Wang
MS Thesis Alumnus

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Peiran Liu
MS Thesis Alumnus

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Gaoyuan Tu
MS Thesis Alumnus

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We're looking for undergraduate and graduate students interested in advancing research at the interface of human factors and healthcare. Please email me or drop by my office.


Denny Yu, PhD
315 N. Grant Street
Grissom Hall Room 268
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Tel.: 765-49-47346
Fax: 765-49-47693
Email: dennyyu@purdue.edu