01/2026 MAE undergraduate student Setayesh (Seta) Naseri joined the group. Welcome!
01/2026 [Student Award] Keren received MAE travel award for TMS conference. Congratulations!
01/2026 BME undergraduate student Caleb Leung joined the group. Welcome!
12/2025 Congratulations to Dr. Hu on being selected as a 2025-26 Goodnight Early Career Innovator!
08/2025 Graduate student Augusta Ekpemogu joined the group. Welcome!
03/2025 [Student Award] Peng received MAE travel award for SES conference. Congratulations!
08/2025 [Student Award] Keren was awarded the McDonald Kleinsteuer Fellowship provided by the McDonald/Kleinstreuer Fellowship Endowment. Congratulations!
06/2025 [Student Award] Keren received the travel award for the 2nd Future Faculty Symposium at SES. Congratulations!
04/2025 Peng, George and Keren passed their Ph.D. prelim exams. Congratulations!
03/2025 [Student Award] George received MAE travel award for TMS conference. Congratulations!
01/2025 We have received an Ideation award from the CMI.
08/2024 [Student Award] Alyssa received the Provost’s Professional Experience Program award. Congratulations!
08/2024 Undergraduate student Alyssa Young and graduate student Cong Meng joined the group. Welcome!
05/2024 [Student Award] Mitesha received MAE-REU award to support her summer research in our group. Congratulations!
03/2024 [Student Award] Keren won the second place in the MAE Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!
01/2024 Our collaborative proposal has been funded by the Fall 2023 Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program.
01/2024 Undergraduate student Mitesha Saha joined the group. Welcome!
08/2023 Professor Hu has been awarded the NIA (National Institute on Aging) Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Health (NIH). We are extremely grateful for NIA’s support of our effort to investigate the integrated experimental and computational approach for accurate patient-specific vascular embolization. News
03/2023 Our Innovation Impact Grant Proposal (PI: Dr. Schmidt, Duke University) submitted to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Acquisition of a VRS1250 Video Rate Imaging Module for a Shared‐Use Asylum‐Cypher Atomic Force Microscope has been funded.
03/2023 We have received a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). We thank NIH for the support!
01/2023 Graduate student Peng Chen joined the group. Welcome!
12/2022 Our proposal has been selected for funding under the Global Health thematic focus area of the Fall 2022 Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program.
10/2022 Prof. Hu was awarded 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). News
09/2022 Graduate students Keren Zhao, and George Varghese joined the group. Welcome!
06/2022 Our group received support from North Carolina Biotechnology Center for Flash Grant Program.
06/2022 Prof. Hu wins the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). MAE News, ORAU News
05/2022 Prof. Hu has been awarded by the Faculty Research and Professional Development Program (FRPD).
03/2022 Our group has been awarded its first grant from the Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE, an NIEHS-funded Environmental Health Science Core Center) at NC State through the Pilot Project Program (PPP).
01/2022 Undergraduate students Caleb Overman and Justin Proscia joined the group. Welcome!
08/2021 Prof. Hu joined MAE department at NC State.