Chao Hu

Collins Aerospace Professor in Engineering Innovation, Associate Professor

Dr. Chao Hu is a Collins Aerospace Professor in Engineering Innovation and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He earned his B.E. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2011. Dr. Hu previously held positions as a Senior Reliability Engineer and Principal Scientist at Medtronic and as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Iowa State University. His research focuses on engineering design under uncertainty, battery health diagnostics and prognostics, and machine and structural health monitoring.

Dr. Hu has received notable awards, including two Highly Cited Research Paper Awards from the Journal of Applied Energy, the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards. He also contributes to the academic community as a Senior Editor for Engineering Optimization, representing the North American region, a Review Editor for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

Keywords: Engineering Design under Uncertainty, Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), Physics-Informed Machine Learning for PHM, Design for Failure Recovery of Lithium-ion Batteries