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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Team


Principal Investigator

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
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

anton5@purdue.edu

Haozhi Chen
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

chen1809@purdue.edu

Peiran Liu
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

liu3820@purdue.edu

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Poushali Ray
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

Gaoyuan Tu
MS Thesis Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

tu87@purdue.edu

Ryan Villarreal
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

villar10@purdue.edu



Jingkun Wang
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

jingkun@purdue.edu

Bowen Zhang
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

​zhan4492@purdue.edu

William Zouzas
Graduate Research Assistant - Bridge

Contact

wzouzas@purdue.edu





Recent Alumni

Chiho Lim
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

lim302@purdue.edu

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Guoyang Zhou
PhD Student, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

Contact

guoyang@purdue.edu

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

Teaching

IE 386 Work measurement and design I

Fall

 

IE 490 Computational Human Factors

Spring

 

IE 577 Human Factors in Engineering

Spring

 

IE 590 Human Factors and Medical Devices

Spring

 

IE 690 Sensing Approaches for Human Factors Research

Spring