Assistant Engineer

CHUN XU (PHOEBE), PH.D.

• *** Cedar Spring Str., Gaithersburg, MD 20877 • Email: tcl218@r.postjobfree.com

• Cell: 267-***-**** • Permanent Resident of the United States

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 2006

GPA 3.83, Dissertation Award from International Society of Biomechanics

BS in Energy Engineering, ZheJiang University, ZheJiang, China, GPA 3.3 1998

AWARDS AND HONORS

• NIH KIRSCHSTEIN NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD, 89% percentile ranking 2009-11

• POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, American Heart Association (AHA), 14% success rate 2007-09

• RESEARCH POSTER AWARD, National Bioengineering Computational Resources (NBCR) 2009

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1ST PRIZE, Design of a dynamic heart phantom for MRI, 35 Annual NE Bioengineering Conf., 2009

• STUDENT AWARD, International Society for magnetic resonance in medicine (ISMRM) 2008

• TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD, Drexel University 2005

• STUDENT AWARD, EMBS-BMES Joint Conference 2002

• GRADUATE RESEARCH/TEACHING FELLOWSHIP, Drexel University 2000-06

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA 2010 to Present

Designed and conducted ABET undergraduate engineering courses.

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA 2007 to 2012

• Editorial review board member of the Journal of Biomedical Graphics and Computing.

• Principal investigators of two grants awarded by NIH and AHA, over ten peer reviewed journal papers

and over thirty podium and poster presentations at national and international conferences. Studied of

mechanical basis of myocardial viability and ischemic involvement after surgical interventions, including

software development, numerical analysis and empirical validation.

• Optimized 3D novel annuloplasty rings to improve the durability of mitral repair surgery .

RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANT, DREXEL UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA 2000 to 2007

• Investigated the dynamics of upper airway collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Developed

numerical models of the dynamics of upper airway collapse. Supervised senior design group in

designing and manufacture of in-vitro scale upper airway model to validate numerical models. This

work lead to two peer reviewed papers and one NIH R21 grant.

• Constructed 3-D computational models of medium-sized arteries to quantify the platelet margination

and transient adhesion phenomena in blood flow. This work lead to clinical utilization to prevent vascular

graft occlusion and thrombus accumulation during graft design.

R&D ENGINEER, BEIJING INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL GROUP, CHINA 1998 to 2000

• Implemented and maintained the ventilation and air-conditioning based on HACCP regulations.

CERTIFICATIONS

• Overview of regulatory requirements, 510(k) and 512(g), quality system regulation 21 CFR part 820

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