Gao Laboratory
Team
"The inventor of the second wheel made the discovery of the first wheel useful. "
From IEA Wind Task 19
Lab Director
Prof. Linyue Gao
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Colorado Denver
Address: 1200 Larimer Street, Suite NC2024-C, Denver, CO 80204, United States
Email: linyue.gao@ucdenver.edu
Other links: ResearchGate, Google Scholar, ORCiD
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Dr. Gao joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver as an Assistant Professor in August 2022. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Renewable Energy from North China Electric Power University in 2013 and 2016. She received her Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 2019. Dr. Gao joined the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2019 and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento, as an Assistant Professor in 2021. She was the recipient of the China National Scholarship and China Wind Power Scholarship at North China Electric Power University; the Brown Graduate Fellowship, President’s Fellowship, and Research Excellence Award at Iowa State University; and the Renewable Energy Commercialization Fellowship from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Awards and Honors in Recent Years (After joining CU Denver in 2022 Fall)
05/2025 - Early Career Award for Excellence in Research, CU Denver
02/2025 - Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award), U.S. National Science Foundation
06/2024 - Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
12/2023 - OER Course Grant, The Division for Teaching Innovation and Program Strategy (TIPS), CU Denver
09/2023 - Teaching Innovation Grant, The Division for Teaching Innovation and Program Strategy (TIPS), CU Denver
05/2023 - Open/All-Disciplines Seed Grants Program, Office of Research Services, CU Denver
04/2023 - Young Upwardly Mobile Professors (YUMPs) Award, Center for Faculty Development & Advancement, CU Denver
10/2022 - Young Upwardly Mobile Professors (YUMPs) Award, Center for Faculty Development & Advancement, CU Denver
09/2022 - Small Grant, Office of Research Services, CU Denver
Current Graduate Students
Fuhao Chen (2024- )
M.Sc. NCEPU 2024​
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​Student Conference Travel Award, CU Denver (2025)
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Current Undergraduate Students
Abraham Cabrera Gonzalez (2023-2025) Website
Juan Hernandez (2023-2025)
juan.hernandezjimenez@ucdenver.edu
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EUReCA! Summer Fellows (2024)
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EUReCA! Award (2024-2025)
David Malfavon Campos (2025- )
Summer Interns
Henry Jackson (2024 Summer)
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CU Summer Research Internship [the Denver-Metro Engineering Consortium, funded through a U.S. Department of Defense grant (#HQ00342220005)]
Rogelio Gutierrez (2024 Summer)
rogelio.gutierrez@ucdenver.edu
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CU Summer Research Internship [the Denver-Metro Engineering Consortium, funded through a U.S. Department of Defense grant (#HQ00342220005)]
Elianna Martin (2023 Summer)
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CU Summer Research Internship [the Denver-Metro Engineering Consortium, funded through a U.S. Department of Defense grant (#HQ00342220005)]
Alumni (Undergraduate)
Jeffrey Peters (2022-2024) Website
Ethan Soileau (2023 Fall)
Amaya Iwatsuru (2022 Fall)
Joshua Rathbun ​(2024 Fall )
Alumni (Graduate)
Sarahanne Mora (2021-2022)
M.Sc. California State University, Sacramento
First position: Project Engineer at Clark Pacific Elk Grove
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Evergreen Research Assistantship (2021-2022)
Samuel Tkachuk (2021-2022)
M.Sc. California State University, Sacramento
First position: Controls Engineer at Barry-Wehmiller Design Group
Andrew Chan (2021-2022)
M.Sc. California State University, Sacramento
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Sz-Pei Ho (2023-2024)
M.Sc. University of Colorado, Denver & Chang Gung University
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Graduate Education Scholarship (2024)
Kang-Ping Lee (2024-2025)
M.Sc. University of Colorado, Denver & Chang Gung University