Wilkins Aquino

Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Wilkins Aquino obtained a BSCE from Purdue University, and a MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the Duke Faculty, he was an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He was also a member of the fields of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Cornell.

Prof. Aquino has broad interests in computational mechanics, including finite element methods, computational inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, coupled chemo-mechanics, and computational acoustics, among others.

Appointments and Affiliations

• Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
• Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Professor in Head & Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
• Professor of Mathematics

Contact Information

• Office Location: 309 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708
• Office Phone: (919) 684-1922
• Email Address: wilkins.aquino@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Inverse Problems and Optimization in Mechanics Lab

Education

• Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002

Research Interests

Computational mechanics, finite element methods, computational inverse problems and their applications in engineering and biomedicine, scientific computing, computational acoustics and acoustics-structure interaction, coupled chemo-mechanics (e.g., electrochemistry-mechanics).

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2012
• Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2007

Courses Taught

• ME 490: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 492: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
• ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering

Representative Publications

• Chen, MJ; Sivakumar, K; Banyay, GA; Golchert, BM; Walsh, TF; Zavlanos, MM; Aquino, W, Bayesian Optimal Sensor Placement for Damage Detection in Frequency-Domain Dynamics, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol 148 no. 12 (2022) [10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0002162] [abs].
• Zou, Z; Kouri, DP; Aquino, W, A Locally Adapted Reduced-Basis Method for Solving Risk-Averse PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems, Siam/Asa Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, vol 10 no. 4 (2022), pp. 1629-1651 [10.1137/21M1411342] [abs].
• Treweek, BC; Sanders, CM; Aquino, W; Walsh, TF, Optimization of Acoustic Channels to Minimize Scattered Pressure Fields, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, vol 30 no. 3 (2022) [10.1142/S2591728522400072] [abs].
• Capriotti, M; Roy, T; Hugenberg, NR; Harrigan, H; Lee, H-C; Aquino, W; Guddati, M; Greenleaf, JF; Urban, MW, The influence of acoustic radiation force beam shape and location on wave spectral content for arterial dispersion ultrasound vibrometry., Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol 67 no. 13 (2022) [10.1088/1361-6560/ac75a7] [abs].
• Hobbs, KT; Choe, N; Aksenov, LI; Reyes, L; Aquino, W; Routh, JC; Hokanson, JA, Machine Learning for Urodynamic Detection of Detrusor Overactivity., Urology, vol 159 (2022), pp. 247-254 [10.1016/j.urology.2021.09.027] [abs].