Amanda Randles

Amanda Randles is an American biomedical engineer and computer scientist known for her work in developing large-scale computational fluid dynamics simulations to model blood flow in the human body. She is currently an Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University.

Early life and education

Randles was born and raised in the United States. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics and Computer Science at Duke University in 2005. She then went on to earn her Master's degree in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2006. In 2013, she completed her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Harvard University, where she developed HARVEY, a massively parallel fluid dynamics simulation capable of modeling the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution.

Career

After completing her Ph.D., Randles spent a year as a Lawrence Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2015, she joined the faculty of Duke University as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Her research focuses on developing high performance computational models to simulate the circulatory system and investigate the development and treatment of diseases such as cancer and atherosclerosis.

Randles is also known for her work in high performance computing. She was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 2015 for her work on HARVEY, a simulation that can model blood flow through the entire human body at subcellular resolution.

Awards and recognition

Randles has received numerous awards and recognition for her work. In 2014, she was named one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in Science and Healthcare. She was also awarded the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award in 2017.