Amanda Randles
Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
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
- Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Contact Information
- Office Location: 301 Gross Hall, 140 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27708
- 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
- IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. IEEE. 2017
- MIT TR35 Visionary. MIT TR35. 2017
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Oak Ridge Associated Universities. 2016
- 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 494: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 590L: Special Topics with Lab
- CEE 307: Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems (AC or GE, BB)
- COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
In the News
- Randles Selected to Help Pilot First U.S. Exascale Computer (Jul 6, 2018 | Pratt School of Engineering )
- Duke University Models How and Where Blood flow Impacts Health (Nov 1, 2017)
- Plumbing Virtual Vessels (Sep 21, 2017)
- 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)
- Amanda Randles: Computing Complex Biological Systems (Jun 5, 2015 | Pratt School of Engineering )
Representative Publications
- Herschlag, G; Lee, S; Vetter, JS; Randles, A, GPU data access on complex geometries for D3Q19 lattice boltzmann method, Proceedings 2018 Ieee 32nd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Ipdps 2018 (2018), pp. 825-834 [10.1109/IPDPS.2018.00092] [abs].
- Rafat, M; Stone, HA; Auguste, DT; Dabagh, M; Randles, A; Heller, M; Rabinov, JD, Impact of diversity of morphological characteristics and Reynolds number on local hemodynamics in basilar aneurysms, Aiche Journal, vol 64 no. 7 (2018), pp. 2792-2802 [10.1002/aic.16091] [abs].
- Gounley, J; Vardhan, M; Randles, A, A framework for comparing vascular hemodynamics at different points in time, Computer Physics Communications (2018) [10.1016/j.cpc.2018.05.014] [abs].
- Randles, A; Frakes, DH; Leopold, JA, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Additive Manufacturing to Diagnose and Treat Cardiovascular Disease., Trends in Biotechnology, vol 35 no. 11 (2017), pp. 1049-1061 [10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.08.008] [abs].
- Gounley, J; Vardhan, M; Randles, A, A computational framework to assess the influence of changes in vascular geometry on blood flow, PASC 2017 - Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (2017) [10.1145/3093172.3093227] [abs].