Chao Hu

Chao Hu

Hu, Chao, Ph.D.

Collins Aerospace Professor in Engineering Innovation
Associate Professor, School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering
UConn College of Engineering
Mailing Address: 191 Auditorium Road, Unit 3139, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
Email: chao.hu@uconn.edu
Phone: +1-860-486-2371
Lab Website, Google Scholar Link

BRIEF BIO

Dr. Chao Hu is the Collins Aerospace Professor in Engineering Innovation and an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He earned his B.E. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2011. Dr. Hu previously held positions as a Senior Reliability Engineer and Principal Scientist at Medtronic, as well as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Iowa State University. His research focuses on engineering design under uncertainty, battery health diagnostics and prognostics, and machine and structural health monitoring.

Dr. Hu has received notable awards, including two Highly Cited Research Paper Awards from Applied Energy, the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards. He also serves the academic community as a Senior Editor for Engineering Optimization, representing the North American region, a Review Editor for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

  • Engineering Design under Uncertainty
  • Battery Health Diagnostics and Prognostics
  • Machine and Structural Health Monitoring
A multiscale framework with extended Kalman filter for lithium-ion battery SOC and capacity estimation
C Hu, BD Youn, J Chung
Applied Energy 92, 694-704
Deep convolutional neural networks with ensemble learning and transfer learning for capacity estimation of lithium-ion batteries
S Shen, M Sadoughi, M Li, Z Wang, C Hu
Applied Energy 260, 114296
Ensemble of data-driven prognostic algorithms for robust prediction of remaining useful life
C Hu, BD Youn, P Wang, JT Yoon
Reliability Engineering & System Safety 103, 120-135
Ensemble of data-driven prognostic algorithms for robust prediction of remaining useful life
C Hu, BD Youn, P Wang
Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), 2011 IEEE Conference on, 1-10
A deep learning method for online capacity estimation of lithium-ion batteries
S Shen, M Sadoughi, X Chen, M Hong, C Hu
Journal of Energy Storage 25, 100817
A comprehensive review of digital twin—part 1: modeling and twinning enabling technologies
A Thelen, X Zhang, O Fink, Y Lu, S Ghosh, BD Youn, MD Todd, ...
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 65 (12), 354
Data-driven method based on particle swarm optimization and k-nearest neighbor regression for estimating capacity of lithium-ion battery
C Hu, G Jain, P Zhang, C Schmidt, P Gomadam, T Gorka
Applied Energy 129, 49-55
Resilience-Driven System Design of Complex Engineered Systems
BD Youn, C Hu, P Wang
Journal of Mechanical Design 133 (10), 101011
Adaptive-sparse polynomial chaos expansion for reliability analysis and design of complex engineering systems
C Hu, BD Youn
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 43 (3), 419-442
A generic probabilistic framework for structural health prognostics and uncertainty management
P Wang, BD Youn, C Hu
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 28, 622-637
A physics-informed deep learning approach for bearing fault detection
S Shen, H Lu, M Sadoughi, C Hu, V Nemani, A Thelen, K Webster, M Darr, ...
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 103, 104295
Method for estimating capacity and predicting remaining useful life of lithium-ion battery
C Hu, G Jain, P Tamirisa, T Gorka
Applied Energy 126, 182–189
Online estimation of lithium-ion battery capacity using sparse Bayesian learning
C Hu, G Jain, C Schmidt, C Strief, M Sullivan
Journal of Power Sources 289, 105-113
Physics-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearings
M Sadoughi, C Hu
IEEE Sensors Journal 19 (11), 4181-4192
An ensemble learning-based prognostic approach with degradation-dependent weights for remaining useful life prediction
Z Li, D Wu, C Hu, J Terpenny
Reliability Engineering & System Safety 184, 110-122
Multi-dimensional variational mode decomposition for bearing-crack detection in wind turbines with large driving-speed variations
Z Li, Y Jiang, Q Guo, C Hu, Z Peng
Renewable Energy 116, 55-73
Recent progress on decoupling diagnosis of hybrid failures in gear transmission systems using vibration sensor signal: A review
Z Li, Y Jiang, C Hu, Z Peng
Measurement 90, 4-19
Uncertainty quantification in machine learning for engineering design and health prognostics: A tutorial
V Nemani, L Biggio, X Huan, Z Hu, O Fink, A Tran, Y Wang, X Zhang, ...
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 205, 110796
A generic model-free approach for lithium-ion battery health management
G Bai, P Wang, C Hu, M Pecht
Applied Energy 135, 247-260
A comprehensive review of digital twin—part 2: roles of uncertainty quantification and optimization, a battery digital twin, and perspectives
A Thelen, X Zhang, O Fink, Y Lu, S Ghosh, BD Youn, MD Todd, ...
Structural and multidisciplinary optimization 66 (1), 1