Regular biography
Wilkins Aquino, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University. He holds a BSCE from Purdue University and MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Duke, he was an associate professor at Cornell University. His research interests include computational mechanics, finite element methods, computational inverse problems, and computational acoustics. He has published extensively in areas such as computational mechanics, acoustics-structure interaction, and coupled chemo-mechanics.
Scholar-generated biography
Wilkins Aquino is a Professor of Computational Mechanics at Duke University, specializing in computational mechanics, computational science, inverse problems, biomedical imaging, and computational acoustics. His research focuses on developing advanced computational techniques for solving complex inverse problems, particularly in biomedical imaging and structural mechanics. He has contributed significantly to the fields of vibro-acoustography, elasticity imaging, and viscoelastic material characterization. His work also addresses challenges in parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and reduced-order modeling for large-scale systems. Aquino's research integrates computational methods with physical modeling to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of simulations in engineering and biomedical applications.