Amanda Randles
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
My research in biomedical simulation and high performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that we use to provide insight into the localization and development of human diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to cancer.Appointments and Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Contact Information
- Office Phone: (919) 660-5425
- Email Address: amanda.randles@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Harvard University, 2013
Research Interests
Randle's research in biomedical simulation and high performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that she uses to provide insight into the localization and development of human diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to cancer.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2015. IEEE. 2015
- Gordon Bell Finalist. ACM. 2015
- Early Independence Award. NIH. 2014
- Lawrence Fellowship. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2013
- U.S. Delegate . Heidelberg Laureate Forum. 2013
- Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Google. 2012
- George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellowship. ACM/IEEE. 2012
- U.S. Delegate . Lindau Nobel Laureates and Students Meeting Dedicated to Physics. 2012
- Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Department of Energy. 2010
- George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellowship. ACM/IEEE. 2010
- Gordon Bell Finalist. ACM. 2010
- Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation. 2009
Courses Taught
- BME 307: Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems (AC or GE, BB)
- BME 394: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 590: Advanced Topics in Biomedical Engineering
- CEE 307: Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems (AC or GE, BB)
- COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
In the News
- Supercomputer copies whole-body blood flow (Mar 17, 2016 | BBC News )
- New Collaborative Seed Grant Program Gives Eight Awards (Mar 16, 2016)
- NIH Features Randles Research on Fighting Cancer With Supercomputers (Nov 19, 2015)
- Experts put health issues firmly in the spotlight (Sep 14, 2015 | China Daily )
- Randles Named Finalist for Supercomputing’s Top Honor (Aug 31, 2015)
Representative Publications
- Randles, A; Draeger, EW; Oppelstrup, T; Krauss, L; Gunnels, JA, Massively parallel models of the human circulatory system, International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC, vol 15-20-November-2015 (2015) [10.1145/2807591.2807676] [abs].
- Randles, A; Draeger, EW; Bailey, PE, Massively parallel simulations of hemodynamics in the primary large arteries of the human vasculature, Journal of Computational Science, vol 9 (2015), pp. 70-75 [10.1016/j.jocs.2015.04.003] [abs].
- Whitley, HD; Scullard, CR; Benedict, LX; Castor, JI; Randles, A; Glosli, JN; Richards, DF; Desjarlais, MP; Graziani, FR, Lenard-Balescu Calculations and Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electrical and Thermal Conductivities of Hydrogen Plasmas, Contributions to Plasma Physics, vol 55 no. 2-3 (2015), pp. 192-202 [10.1002/ctpp.201400066] [abs].
- You, Y; Fu, H; Song, SL; Randles, A; Kerbyson, D; Marquez, A; Yang, G; Hoisie, A, Scaling Support Vector Machines on modern HPC platforms, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol 76 (2015), pp. 16-31 [10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.09.005] [abs].
- Randles, A; Kaxiras, E, Parallel in time approximation of the lattice Boltzmann method for laminar flows, Journal of Computational Physics, vol 270 (2014), pp. 577-586 [10.1016/j.jcp.2014.04.006] [abs].