Trung Bao Le

University of Minnesota

Department of Civil Engineering Phone: 612-***-****

Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory Email: lebao002@umn.edu2 Third Avenue SE, MN 55414

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Civil Engineering/ Computational Fluid Dynamics/ minor:

Mathematics)

University of Minnesota, September 2006 - December 2011, Minneapolis, United States

Master of Engineering (Civil Engineering/Water Resources)

Asian Institute of Technology, September 2003 - June 2005, Bangkok, Thailand

Bachelor of Engineering ( Civil Engineering/Hydrology)

Hanoi Water Resources University, September 1998 - June 2003, Hanoi, Vietnam

Employment

Post-doctoral Associate, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, United

States, De-

cember 2011 - present

Research Assistant, Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, United

States, September

2006 - November 2011

Lecturer, Hanoi Water Resources University, Vietnam, June 2005 - June 2006

Journal Articles

Trung Bao Le and Fotis Sotiropoulos, On the three-dimensional vortical structure of early

diastolic flow in a

patient-specific left ventricle, European Journal of Mechanics- B/Fluid, 2012

Coffey, Dane; Malbraaten, Nicholas; Le, Trung; Borazjani, Iman; Sotiropoulos, Fotis;

Erdman, Arthur;

International SWAT Conference in Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5-8 Jan 2009

Awards

GalleryofFluidMotionbestmovieaward, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid

Dynamics,

Baltimore, MD 2011

Vietnam Education Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship (www.vef.gov), 2006-2011

Outstanding student in Water Engineering and Management program, Asian Institute of

Technology -

Bangkok, Thailand, 2005

Danish International Development Agency fellowship for master degree study, 2003-2005

Top 1% (summa cum laude) of the 2003 batch, Hanoi Water Resources University, Vietnam,

2003

Second prize for VIFOTEC award (Vietnam Fund for Supporting Scientific and Technological

Cre-

ations), 2003

Silver medal for National Olympiad of Fluid Mechanics,Vietnam, 2001

Silver medal for National Olympiad of Theoretical Mechanics, Vietnam,2001

Silver medal for National Olympiad of Computer Programming,Vietnam,1999

st

The 1 score at the university entrance exam to Hanoi Water Resources University, 1998

Third prize for Young Talent in Hanoi Olympiad of Computer Programming,Vietnam,1995

Affiliations

American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),

American Soci-

ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) American Geophysical Union (AGU), Society for Industrial

and Applied

Mathematics (SIAM), American Heart Association (AHA), Biomedical Engineering Society

(BMES)

Service

Reviewer of BMES Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME) journal (2012 - present)

Reviewer of BMES Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology (CVET) journal (2012-present)

Reviewer of the 2012 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee (2011)

Presentations

Trung Le and Fotis Sotiropoulos, High resolution simulation of left ventricular

hemodynamics during

diastole, ASME Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, July 8-12, 2012, Puerto Rico

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Trung Le, Brandon Chaffins, Lucia Mirabella, Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Fotis Sotiropoulos

and Ajit Yo-

ganathan, High resolution numerical simulation and experimental studies of left

ventricular hemodynam-

ics, ASME Verification and Validation Symposium, May 2-4, 2012, Las Vegas

Trung Le and Fotis Sotiropoulos, High-resolution numerical simulation of patient-specific

hemodynamics

with implanted medical devices, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Medicine and

Biology - Seventh

International Biofluid Mechanics Symposium, March 25-30, 2012. Ein Bokek, Dead Sea,

Israel

Trung Le, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dane Coffey, Daniel Keefe, Vortex formation and instability

in the left ven-

tricle, Gallery of Fluid Motion Award, The 64th meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics -

APS, November

2011, Baltimore, DC

Le Trung and Fotis Sotiropoulos, The effect of mitral orifice eccentricity on the left

ventricle diastolic flow

patterns, The 64th meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics - APS, November 2011, Baltimore,

DC

Le Trung and Fotis Sotiropoulos, (invited), High resolution simulation of an aortic valve

prothesis in

patient-specific left heart anatomy, ASME Emerging Technologies the 6th Frontiers in

Biomedical Devices

Conference and Exhibition, 26-27 September 2011, Irvine, California,

Brandon Chaffins, Trung Le, Lucia Mirabella, Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Neelakantan

Saikrishnan, Fotis

Sotiropoulos and Ajit Yoganathan, High resolution experimental and computational study of

flow through

a bi-leaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) in a model left ventricle, The 11th Annual

meeting of BMES,

Hatford, 2011

Trung Le, Iman Borazjani, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Fluid Structure Interaction simulation of

heart prosthesis in

patient-specific left-ventricle/aorta anatomies, 62nd - APS meeting of Division of Fluid

Dynamics,11/2009

Fotis Sotiropoulos, Trung Le, Iman Borazjani, Flow patterns and shear stress waveforms in

intracranial

aneurysms: The effect of pulsatility, 62nd - APS meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics,

11/2009

Trung Le, Cardiovascular flow: A patient specific approach, SAFL seminar series, 10/2009

Borazjani, I., Le, T., and Sotiropoulos, F., A multi-block/immersed boundary numerical

framework for

simulating cardiovascular flows, The FDA Workshop on Computer Methods for Cardiovascular

Devices,

June 1-2, 2009, Rockville, MD.

Babel, M. S., Trung, L. B., Singhrattna, N. and S. M. Wahid (2009). An Application of

Soil and Water

Assessment Tool (SWAT) to Assess Water Quality of the Upper Cong Watershed, Vietnam.

International

SWAT Conference in Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5-8 Jan 2009

Trung Le, Iman Borazjani, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Vorticity dynamics in an intracranial

aneurysm, The 61st -

APS meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, 11/2008

Trung Le, Iman Borazjani, Fotis Sotiropoulos, The 3D vorticity dynamics of impulsive flow

through an

inclined nozzle - poster session, 61st - APS meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics, San

Antonio, 11/2008

Borazjani, I., Ge, L., Le, T., Simon, H., de Zelicourt, D., Sotiropoulos, F., Yoganathan,

A. P. and Kallmes, D.

(2008), Toward patient-specific cardiovascular flow simulations with sharp interface

immersed boundary

methods: Recent successes and future ventures, In Inaugural International Conference of

the Engineering

Mechanics Institute (EM08), May 18-21, 2008. Minneapolis, MN.

Trung Le, Liang Ge, Fotis Sotiropoulos, David Kallmes, Harry Cloft, Debra Lewis, Daying

Dai, Yonghong

Ding, Ramanathan Kadirvel, Image-based numerical simulation of hemodynamics in a

intracranial aneurysm,

60th - APS meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, 11/2007

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