David L. Hu (born circa 1979[1]) is an American mathematician, roboticist, and biologist who is currently an associate professor at the engineering department of Georgia Tech.
[2] Hu was born in Rockville, Maryland, and as high school student he was a semifinalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
[3][4] His father was a chemist who enjoyed collecting and dissecting road kill, which inspired his son's curiosity regarding the science of living things.
In 2016 his work was criticized by Arizona Senator Jeff Flake as one of the twenty most wasteful federally funded research projects.
[12] He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for innovative experiments in biological fluid mechanics and a willingness to share them with young scientists".