Jingwen Hu

Dr. Hu is an Research Associate Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests primarily focus on injury biomechanics in motor-vehicle crashes and falls by a multidisciplinary approach using combination of experimental, numerical, and epidemiological procedures. His recent research primarily focused on the development of parametric computational human models representing people in a diverse population. Such models have been used to study the injury mechanism and safety designs for various vulnerable populations, such as children, elderly, pedestrian, pregnant female, and obese occupants. He is an author of more than 45 journal articles and more than 30 conference papers. He is the lead author of 2 best paper awards and the “Mimics Innovation Award” on developing and applying human and dummy models for occupant protection in crashes.