Amanda Randles

Amanda Randles is an American biomedical engineer who is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University. She is also an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, computer science, and mathematics at Duke University, and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. Her research interests include high performance computing, computational fluid dynamics, and biomedical simulation.

Amanda Randles
EducationDuke University
Harvard University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical engineering
Computer science
InstitutionsDuke University
ThesisModeling Cardiovascular Hemodynamics Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Massively Parallel Supercomputers (2013)
Doctoral advisorEfthimios Kaxiras

Education

Randles received a B.A. in physics and computer science from Duke University in 2005. After working on the Blue Gene project at IBM from 2005 to 2009, she went to Harvard University, where she earned an S.M. in computer science in 2010 and a PhD in applied physics in 2013.[1][2][3]

Academic career
Randles at the WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2016

In 2009, Randles was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.[4] In 2011, she was awarded a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship by the Krell Institute, and subsequently completed a practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[1] In 2014, she was awarded the NIH Director's Early Independence Award.[3]

Randles joined the Duke University Biomedical Engineering Department in 2015, where she is currently serving as the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences.[5] She is also an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at Duke University, and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.[4] She was named to the 2015 World Economic Forum Young Scientist List for her work on the "design of large-scale parallel applications targeting problems in physics".[6]

In 2017, she was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award for developing HARVEY, a fluid dynamics simulation software capable of modeling blood flowing throughout a human body based on full-body CT and MRI scans, named after William Harvey.[2][7] She was also named as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review magazine for her work on developing HARVEY.[8]

In 2018, Randles was selected as one of ten researchers to test simulation-based projects on the Aurora exascale supercomputer, as part of the Aurora Early Science Program at the Argonne National Laboratory.[9] In May 2020, she was awarded a NSF CAREER Award to support her work with HARVEY.[10]

References
  1. "Alumni Profiles". DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Krell Institute.
  2. Webb, Jonathan (March 17, 2016). "Supercomputer copies human blood flow". British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
  3. Collins, Francis (November 19, 2015). "Creative Minds: Fighting Cancer with Supercomputers". NIH Director's Blog. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  4. "Amanda Randles". Duke Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  5. "Amanda Randles: Computing Complex Biological Systems". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. June 5, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  6. "Meet the Class of 2015" (PDF). World Economic Forum Young Scientists. World Economic Forum.
  7. "Amanda Randles". awards.acm.org. Association for Computing Machinery.
  8. "Simulating how blood flows through each of us differently". MIT Technology Review.
  9. "Randles Selected to Help Pilot First U.S. Exascale Computer". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. July 5, 2018. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
  10. "Randles Receives NSF CAREER Award to Model the Movement of Cells Through Fluid". Duke Pratt School of Engineering. May 6, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
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