Amanda Randles

Biomedical Engineering

Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences

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Research Themes

Biomechanics & Mechanobiology, Biomedical & Health Data Sciences, Computational Modeling of Biological Systems, Synthetic & Systems Biology

Research Interests

Biomedical simulation and high-performance computing

Bio

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. 

Education

  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 2013

Positions

  • Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
  • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  • Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award. Pratt School of Engineering. 2023
  • Pioneer Award. NIH. 2022
  • Fellow (NAI). National Academy of Inventors. 2021
  • Senior Member. National Academy of Inventors. 2019
  • IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing. IEEE. 2017
  • Grace Murray Hopper Award. ACM. 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
  • U.S. Delegate . Lindau Nobel Laureates and Students Meeting Dedicated to Physics. 2012
  • George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellowship. ACM/IEEE. 2012
  • George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellowship. ACM/IEEE. 2010
  • Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Department of Energy. 2010
  • Gordon Bell Finalist. ACM. 2010
  • Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation. 2009

Courses Taught

  • EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
  • BME 792: Continuation of Graduate Independent Study
  • BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
  • BME 590L: Special Topics with Lab
  • BME 520L: Computational Foundations of Biomedical Simulation (GE, BB, MC)
  • BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
  • BME 307: Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems (AC or GE, BB)

Publications

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