Jay D. Humphrey PhD

Jay D. Humphrey received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from The Georgia Institute of Technology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Medicine - Cardiovascular at the Johns Hopkins University, both in the USA. He is currently John C. Malone Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University.

He has authored three textbooks and published over 250 archival journal papers, primarily on the use of experimental and computational mechanics to understand and treat vascular disease. He served for two years as Chair of the United States National Committee of Biomechanics and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.