Hu has twice won the
Ig Nobel Prize for Physics. In 2015 he shared the prize with Patricia Yang for research on the duration of animal urination, in which Yang and Hu found that nearly all mammals evacuate their bladders in approximately 21 seconds plus or minus 13 seconds. In 2019 Hu and colleagues won the prize for studying the means of production of the cubical feces of
wombats. 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". ==References==