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Wilkins Aquino obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and both his Master’s and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the faculty at Duke University, he served as an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests span a variety of topics including computational mechanics, finite element methods, computational inverse problems, and their applications in engineering and biomedicine. He is particularly focused on the fields of computational acoustics and coupled chemo-mechanics, exploring interactions like electrochemistry-mechanics. Prof. Aquino has contributed extensively to the field through his numerous publications on topics related to structural optimization, material identification, and damage detection using advanced computational methods. His distinguished contributions have been recognized by honors such as the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program from the National Science Foundation in both 2007 and 2012.
Duke University • Durham, NC
Conducting research and teaching in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Taught courses and conducted research in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)