Amanda Randles

Amanda Randles is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. She holds joint appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Her research combines high-performance computing and biomedical simulation to model complex biological systems such as blood flow and cancer progression.

• Duke Cancer Institute Member
• Randles Lab Leader

Research Focus:
Development of computational tools like HARVEY and HarVI frameworks for 3D hemodynamic simulations, digital twins of vasculature, and machine learning applications in cardiovascular disease prediction. Her work bridges biomedical engineering, computational fluid dynamics, and GPU-accelerated modeling.

Scientific Awards:

• 2025 Sony Women in Technology Award (associated $250,000 prize)
• 2022 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award ($3.5M)
• 2020 NSF CAREER Award
• 2017 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35
• IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Award

Recent Publications: Focus on adaptive physics refinement, fluid-structure interaction optimization, digital twins for coronary analysis, GPU acceleration of biomedical simulations, and predictive modeling of cancer cell transport.