Author: Cardiovascular Biomechanics Research Lab

We are fortunate to have had a fantastic collaboration with the Marsden Lab at Stanford, mentoring graduate student Aaron Brown in the development of methods to create cardiac digital twins, i.e., a virtual replica of the human heart. Aaron recently defended his PhD thesis titled “Towards personalized multiphysics heart models for clinical applications“. Some of…

78th APS DFD Meeting, Houston

Dec 21, 2025

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A big shoutout to Bryan for his exciting work on computational modeling of left atrial (LA) mechanics and blood flow, taking variable tissue thickness into account. This makes a seminal contribution to the field, as LA is traditionally understudied compared to the ventricular counterpart, and its geometrical variations remain less characterized due to a lack…

Congratulations, Yurui

Nov 5, 2025

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Excited to share our new paper in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering journal on using computational modeling for surgical planning in neonates born with undersized hearts https://rdcu.be/eOj7n The publication is particularly timely as Yurui, my first graduate student, just defended his PhD thesis. It was a joy to advise him over the past five years,…

Invited Talk at UCSD

Oct 15, 2025

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Thank you, Stephanie, for your kind invitation to UCSD. Really enjoyed presenting our work on digital twins for modeling cardiovascular disease and beyond. It was really fun interacting with your students and learning some of the fascinating work done at your lab, as well as that of other MAE faculty, including Profs. James Friend, Boris…

BMES 2025, San Diego

Oct 15, 2025

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Thoroughly enjoyed attending BMES this year in San Diego after nearly a decade since I first attended it as a graduate student. What a beautiful place to hold this fantastic meeting, with some amazing networking opportunities. I was also fortunate to capture some beautiful pictures of San Diego’s sunset and an unusual rainbow. Olivia presented…

New paper in CMAME

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About ten years ago, we investigated blood flow transport in a human left atrium as part of my Ph.D. Now, we are revisiting the same problem from a different perspective by predicting and personalizing tissue mechanics, with the ultimate goal of shedding light on the biomechanics of atrial complications, including fibrillation and stroke. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2025.118412 Congratulations,…

IBMS10

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It was rewarding to attend IBMS10 in Irvine, CA, where Hannah and I (on behalf of Yurui) presented our recent work on blood flow modeling and fluid-structure interaction in the ascending aorta and coronary arteries. The symposium was fantastic, featuring some thought-provoking perspectives by Mory Gharib on the Enigma of Heart, Andrew McCulloch, Marvin Slepian,…

ENG 2025

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High school students Dustin Huang, Stephanie Reinozo, and Andrew Tsai spent six weeks at CBRL as part of the Columbia Engineering the Next Generation (ENG) initiative, which aims to introduce research and develop academic and professional skills in high school students from the NYC area. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions to our research.…

CBRL at USNCCM 2025

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Olivia and Hannah gave great presentations at the USNCCM meeting in Chicago on their work related to creating digital twins for the uterus and left ventricle – two very similar organs in function, yet pose modeling challenges due to their disparities. Here is an interesting article that talks about these two systems https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(15)00653-5/fulltext

CBRL at SBC 2025

Jul 3, 2025

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