American computer scientist
Amanda Randles is an American computer scientist who is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University . Randles is an associate professor of biomedical engineering with secondary appointments in computer science, mathematics, and mechanical engineering and materials science. She is a member of the Duke Cancer Institute . Her research interests include biomedical simulation, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance computing .
Early career and education
In high school, Randles attended the Utica Center for Math, Science, and Technology , where she learned computer programming and its applications in the sciences. She also participated in Science Olympiad and FIRST Robotics .[ 1]
Randles attended Duke University , where she completed a B.A. in physics and computer science in 2005. After working for three years as a software developer on the IBM Blue Gene project,[ 1] she went to Harvard University to earn an S.M. in computer science (2010) and a PhD in applied physics (2013)[ 2] advised by Efthimios Kaxiras and Hanspeter Pfister .[ 1] She was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) and in 2011, she was awarded a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship by the Krell Institute . She subsequently completed a practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [ 2] and was a visiting scientist at Franziska Michor 's laboratory in the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute .[ 1]
Academic career
Randles joined the Duke University Biomedical Engineering Department in 2015, where she is currently serving as the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences.[ 3] She received tenure in 2023 in Biomedical Engineering and has secondary appointments in mathematics, computer science, and mechanical and materials science. She is also a member of the Duke Cancer Institute .[ 4]
Research
Randles' research interests are biomedical simulation and high-performance computing ; specifically, her focus is developing computational tools that can examine the behavior of different diseases, from atherosclerosis to cancer .[ 4] Randles and her research group have developed fluid dynamics simulation software capable of modeling blood flowing throughout a human body based on full-body CT and MRI scans, dubbed HARVEY after the physician William Harvey . Possible applications include examining how different medical interventions in cardiovascular disease impact the circulatory system and modeling the flow of singular cancer cells through the system.[ 5]
In 2018, Randles was one of ten researchers selected to test simulation-based projects on the Aurora exascale supercomputer in 2021, as part of the Aurora Early Science Program at the Argonne National Laboratory .[ 6] [ 7] She was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in May 2020 to support her work on HARVEY.[ 8]
Awards and honors
In 2023, she was warded the NIH Pioneer award to support her work combining wearables with physics-based models. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors . For her work on ventilator splitting during the Covid-19 pandemic, she was awarded the Alexandra Jane Noble Epiphany Science Inspiration Award . In 2014, Randles was awarded the NIH Director's Early Independence Award .[ 9] 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".[ 10] In 2017, she was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award and was later named to the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 , both given for her work on HARVEY.[ 11] [ 12] In January 2024, she was named a Distinguished Member of the ACM.[ 13] She was the 2023 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for her contributions to "computational health through innovative algorithms, tools, and high performance computing methods for diagnosing and treating a variety of human diseases".[ 14]
Selected publications
Bagrat Grigoryan; Samantha J Paulsen; Daniel C Corbett; et al. (May 1, 2019). "Multivascular networks and functional intravascular topologies within biocompatible hydrogels". Science . 364 (6439): 458– 464. Bibcode :2019Sci...364..458G . doi :10.1126/SCIENCE.AAV9750 . ISSN 0036-8075 . PMID 31048486 . Wikidata Q91711085 .
Vanessa Almendro; Yu-Kang Cheng; Amanda Randles; et al. (January 23, 2014). "Inference of tumor evolution during chemotherapy by computational modeling and in situ analysis of genetic and phenotypic cellular diversity" . Cell Reports . 6 (3): 514– 527. doi :10.1016/J.CELREP.2013.12.041 . ISSN 2211-1247 . PMC 3928845 . PMID 24462293 . Wikidata Q37592617 .
D Keyes; L C McInnes; C Woodward; et al. (November 29, 2012). "Multiphysics simulations: challenges and opportunities". International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications . 27 (1): 4– 83. doi :10.2172/1034263 . ISSN 1094-3420 . Wikidata Q58389771 .
Randles, Amanda; Draeger, Erik W.; Oppelstrup, Tomas; Krauss, Liam; Gunnels, John A. (November 15, 2015). "Massively parallel models of the human circulatory system" . Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis . pp. 1– 11. doi :10.1145/2807591.2807676 . ISBN 9781450337236 . OSTI 1241975 . S2CID 17681519 .
Randles, Amanda Peters; Kale, Vivek; Hammond, Jeff; Gropp, William; Kaxiras, Efthimios (May 2013). "Performance Analysis of the Lattice Boltzmann Model Beyond Navier-Stokes" . 2013 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing . pp. 1063– 1074. doi :10.1109/IPDPS.2013.109 . ISBN 978-1-4673-6066-1 . S2CID 14599817 .
References
^ a b c d "Women @ Energy: Amanda Randles" . United States Department of Energy . April 9, 2014. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2021 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
^ a b "Alumni Profiles" . DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship . Krell Institute.
^ "Amanda Randles: Computing Complex Biological Systems" . Duke Pratt School of Engineering. June 5, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
^ a b "Amanda Randles" . Scholars@Duke . Duke University . Retrieved November 11, 2021 .
^ Webb, Jonathan (March 17, 2016). "Supercomputer copies human blood flow" . BBC .
^ "Randles Selected to Help Pilot First U.S. Exascale Computer" . Duke Pratt School of Engineering. July 5, 2018. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
^ Harbin, Julie Poucher (August 30, 2019). "Randles Preps Cancer Simulations for 2021" . Duke University Pratt School of Engineering . Retrieved November 12, 2021 .
^ "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 .
^ Collins, Francis (November 19, 2015). "Creative Minds: Fighting Cancer with Supercomputers" . NIH Director's Blog . Retrieved October 23, 2020 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
^ "Meet the Class of 2015" (PDF) . World Economic Forum Young Scientists . World Economic Forum.
^ "Amanda Randles" . Association for Computing Machinery.
^ Regalado, Antonio (August 16, 2017). "Simulating how blood flows through each of us differently" . MIT Technology Review .
^ "International Computing Society Recognizes 2023 Distinguished Members for Significant Achievements" (Press release). ACM. January 17, 2024.
^ "Amanda Randles Awarded ACM Prize in Computing for Revolutionizing Medical Diagnostics" (PDF) (Press release). ACM. April 24, 2024.
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