Books By Chao Hu, Byeng D. Youn, Pingfeng Wang - Author

Chao Hu, Ph.D. received his B.E. deg ree in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 2007 and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in Maryland in 2011. He worked as a Principal Scientist at Medtronic, Inc. in Minnesota from 2011 to 2015. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Iowa State University. His research interests are engineering design under uncertainty, design of lithium-ion energy storage systems, and prognostics and health management (PHM). Dr. Hu has received several awards and recognitions for his research, including: the Highly Cited Research Paper 2012-2013 in the Journal of Applied Energy in 2015; the Star of Excellence Individual Award at Medtronic in 2014; the Best Paper Award in the ASME Design Automation Conferences (DAC) in 2013; and the Best Paper Award in the IEEE PHM Conference in 2012. His research work has led to more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in the