Mission Areas
- Biotechnology
- Human Modeling and Simulation
Professor Jia Lu's research focuses on the mechanics of soft tissues, computational mechanics, nonlinear elasticity, and inverse problems.
Research Team

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Jia Lu, PhD
Title/Position
Director, Biomechanics Lab
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Vivek Karmarkar
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant

Yuanming Luo
Title/Position
Assistant Research Scientist

Farshid Masoumi
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant

Nishant Sundaravaradan
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant

Mohan Yu
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
News

New $1M grant to bridge educational gaps between modeling and simulation and machine learning
Friday, February 18, 2022
The United States Department of Education has awarded a $1 million grant to Professors Ching-Long Lin (PI), Sharif Rahman, Jia Lu, Shaoping Xiao, Rachel Vitali and Jane Russell to develop artificial intelligence modeling and simulation (AIMS) programs to bridge educational gaps between modeling and simulation and machine learning.