David L. Hu assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology and Adjunct Professor of Physics The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering



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DAVID L. HU

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology and Adjunct Professor of Physics

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

August 13, 2017
Dr. David Hu is an experimental fluid dynamicist with expertise in surface-tension and friction phenomena in the natural world. He seeks to be the world's leading researcher in the biomechanics of animal locomotion. The study of flying, swimming and running dates back hundreds of years, and has since shown to be an enduring and rich subject, linking areas as diverse as mechanical engineering, mathematics and neuroscience. Dr. Hu's work in this area has the potential to impact robotics research. Before robots can interact with humans, aid in minimally-invasive surgery, perform interplanetary exploration or lead search-and-rescue operations, we will need a fundamental physical understanding of how related but much simpler tasks are accomplished in their biological counterparts. Dr. Hu has focused on applying engineering techniques to outstanding biological questions regarding the interaction between organisms and their environments. Dr. Hu’s work in these areas has generated broad interest across the fields of engineering, biology and robotics, resulting in over 20 publications, including several in high-impact interdisciplinary journals such as Nature (2003, 2005) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2009, 2011, 2012) as well as popular journals such as Physics Today (2010) and American Scientist (2010).
Over the years, Dr. Hu's research has also played a role in educating the public in science and engineering. He has been an invited guest on numerous television and radio shows to discuss his research, including Good Morning America (2010), National Public Radio (2009-2010), The Weather Channel (2011), and Discovery Channel (2011). His ant research was featured on the cover of the Washington Post in 2011. His work has also been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Popular Science and Discover magazine. Most recently, his laboratory appeared on 3D TV as part of a nature documentary by 3DigitalVision, ``Fire ants: the invincible army.''

I. EARNED DEGREES





Degree

Year

University

Field

Advisor

Doctor of Philosophy

2005

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mathematics

John Bush

Bachelor of Science

2001

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mechanical Engineering

L. Mahadevan










(Minor in Math)



II. EMPLOYMENT





Title

Organization

Years

Adjunct Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Physics



12/12 - present

Assistant Professor

(3/4 appointment)



Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Mechanical Engineering



8/08-present

Assistant Professor

(1/4 appointment)



Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Biology



8/08-present

Instructor of Mathematics

Courant Institute of Mathematical

Sciences, New York University



9/07-8/08

National Science Foundation

Mathematical Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow


Courant Institute of Mathematical

Sciences, New York University

(Advisor: Michael Shelley)


9/05-08/07









III. TEACHING

A.  Individual Student Guidance

PhD Students Supervised

1.Name: Mlot, Nathaniel

Began Advising: Fall 2008

Project: Rheology of Ants

Status: Passed Qualifying exams in 2011, scheduled PhD proposal in 2012

Publications: Mlot, Tovey & Hu PNAS 2011; Mlot, Tovey & Hu 2012 Comm. Integr. Biology

Presentations: APS 2009; APS 2010; Fibers 2011; SICB 2013
2.Name: Marvi, Hamidreza

Began Advising: Spring 2009

Project: Locomotion of Snakes

Status: Passed Qualifying Exams in 2010; Passed PhD proposal in 2011; Completed all classes

Publications: Marvi et al. (2011) ASME DSSC Proceedings; Marvi & Hu (2012 Proc. Roy. Soc Interface); Marvi & Hu (2013) Proc. Roy Soc Interface.

Presentations: APS 2010, DSSC 2011; SICB 2012; APS March 2012; Materials Research Society (MRS) 2012; APS 2012; SICB 2013


3.Name: Dickerson, Andrew

Began Advising: Spring 2009

Project: Active water-repellency

Status: Re-taking qualifying exams 2012

Publications: Dickerson, Mills & Hu (2012) Proc Roy Soc Interface; Dickerson et al, PNAS (2012)

Presentations: APS 2010; APS 2011; SICB 2012


4.Name: Amador, Guillerimo

Began Advising: Fall 2010

Project: Mechanics of seed dispersal

Status: Taking 2nd qualifying exams 2013

Publications: Amador et al (2013) Proc. Roy. Soc: Interface

Presentations: APS 2011; APS 2012


5.Name: Yang, Patricia

Began Advising: Fall 2012

Project: Fog-harvesting plants

Status: Taking classes

Publications: NA

Presentations: NA


M.S. Thesis Students Supervised1


Name: Hobbs, William2

Began Advising: Fall 2008

Graduated: Winter 2009

Thesis: Piezoelectric energy harvesting: vortex induced vibrations in plants, soap films and arrays of cylinders

Publications/presentations: Hobbs & Hu Fluid Struct. Interaction 2011; APS 2009

Position after graduation: Southern Company, Research Engineer


Name: Mulcahey, Thomas

Began Advising: Fall 2008

Graduated: Winter 2009

Thesis: Autonomous cricket biosensors for acoustic localization

Publications/presentations: SICB 2010

Position after graduation: Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering PhD program


Undergraduate Special Problems and Research Students Supervised


Undergraduates in my lab are mentored by myself and one of my graduate students. Students generally stay on for 1-3 semesters and during that time many undergraduates are coauthors on papers. Many have also won competitive university funding awards such as

  • DURF denotes NYU Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fellow

  • PURA denotes Georgia Tech’s Presidential Undergraduate Research Awardee

After graduation, students often go on to graduate school in science or engineering. In the table below, “Year” denotes the year student joined the lab.


Year

Student

Project

Publications and Awards

After graduation

Lab Quote

2013

Zhongyang Jet Liu

Fog harvesting













Ke Xu

Flying fish













Sulisay Phonekeo

Flying fish













Jason Hsieh

Sidewinding snakes













Abbey Whitley

Ant bridges










2012

Jonathan Pham

Micturition

CURE (2 semesters in Hu’s lab and 1 semester in Peking University); PURA







Jerome Choo

Micturition










James Morrison

Ant simulations










Michael Gerov

Ant towers










Eric Yi

Butterfly flight










Puja De

Eyelash allometry










Alex Barberie

Puffball mushrooms

DFD 2012







Bruce Berry

Mosquitoes in fog

PURA







David Kim

Mosquitoes in dew

PURA







2011

Peter Shankles

Mosquitoes in rain

PURA







Daniel Christ

Sugar bear aerodynamics

PURA







Camille Cruz

Ant rafts

PURA; SURE







Abhishek Kwatra

Eyelash simulations










Paul Cook

Concertina locomotion

PURA

Medical school




Yasukuni Yamada

Splash cup seed dispersal

Amador et al 2012; PURA

Japan




2010

Paul Foster

CT-scans of ant aggregations




CMU computer science PhD




Sho Shinotsuka

Ant towers




Japan




Micah Streiff

CT-scans of ant aggregations










Daniel West

Mechanics of Mexican jumping Beans

Hu et al 2012; SICB 2010; PURA

Cummins Diesel and Fuel Systems, Pump Development Engineer




Ishan Lal

A Mexican Jumping Bean Robot

Hu et al 2012; PURA







Geoff Russell

Scalybot

Marvi et al. 2011; Best Paper by ASME

Hopkins MS in ME




Gregory Meyers

Scalybot

Marvi et al. 2011; Best Paper by ASME







Peter deMercurio

Eyelash allometry

PURA

Gilet




2009

Adrian Martinez

Ant clump assembly




Peace Corps




Zachary Mills

Mechanics of the wet-dog shake

Dickerson et al 2012; PURA

Georgia Tech PhD




Paul Richards

Mechanics of giant pumpkins

Hu et al 2011; PURA

Georgia Tech Masters




2007-2008

Terri Scott

Mechanics of slithering

Hu et al 2009; DURF







Jasmine Nirody

Mechanics of slithering

Hu et al 2009; DURF

Biophysics PhD at Berkeley




Michael Gordon

Turtle shell scaling

Hu et al 2011; DURF

Master’s program in Statistics at CUNY




Kelly Sielert

Turtle shell scaling

Hu et al 2011; DURF

Technology consulting





High School students


Year

Student

School

Project

Publications and Awards

After graduation





































2012




Wheeler
















Wheeler













Luke Telljohann

Westminster

Mosquitoes in fog

DFD 2012







Frank Chen

Chattahoochee High School

Eyelash aerodynamics




Yale Pre-med




Raghuveer Gummadi

Wheeler

SEM of ant linkages







2011

Nihar Madhavan

Duluth high school

Mosquitoes in rain

Dickerson et al 2012

Princeton finance


B.  Courses Taught


My recent efforts towards curriculum development are given below.

Graduate Courses

Viscous flow, ME 6602 Spring 2013


I replaced this lecture-based course with a series of modules to be completed in a problem-based learning environment. I took advantage of the classrooms in the Whitaker building to allow the students to work in groups on their modules.

Graduate fluid mechanics, ME 6601 Fall 2011


I completely restructured this pre-existing course around a mathematical treatment of fluid mechanics with an emphasis on the use of scaling, Einstein notation, and physical intuition.

Undergraduate Courses

Research Project Laboratory, BIO 4590 Spring 2010

I completely restructured this pre-existing course around a new theme on mechanics of ant aggregations, created a semester’s worth of new lectures and built new laboratory equipment for the course for the study of ant locomotion. Particular attention was paid to teaching biologists to perform quantitative mechanical measurements.
Fluid Mechanics, ME 3340 Fall 2008, Fall 2009

I taught this course with an emphasis on biomechanics and flows in nature. I introduced a new 2-week module on scaling and dimensional analysis and its use in nature.


Thermal Fluids Engineering, ME3720: Fall 2010


Directory: People
People -> Math 4630/5630 Homework 4 Solutions Problem Solving ip
People -> Handling Indivisibilities
People -> San José State University Social Science/Psychology Psych 175, Management Psychology, Section 1, Spring 2014
People -> YiChang Shih
People -> Marios S. Pattichis image and video Processing and Communication Lab (ivpcl)
People -> Peoples Voice Café History
People -> Sa michelson, 2011: Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bound. Layer Meteor., 140 ( 3 ), 361-381, doi: 10. 1007/s10546-011-9617-1, issn: Jun-14, ids: 807TW, sep 2011 Bao, jw, cw fairall, sa michelson
People -> Curriculum vitae sara a. Michelson
People -> Curriculum document state board of education howard n. Lee, C
People -> A hurricane track density function and empirical orthogonal function approach to predicting seasonal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin Elinor Keith April 17, 2007 Abstract

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