Author: Cardiovascular Biomechanics Research Lab

We are thrilled to share that our work on modeling left atrial biomechanics is supported by the NSF CAREER award. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2443726&HistoricalAwards=false

A big thank you to the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) for supporting our trainees, Yiding Wen, Eva Melendrez, and Nathasha Thalpaguruge,  through the Summer@SEAS 2025 program. Congratulations to Eva for being selected as the SEAS Fellow.

We are super excited to have Parker Mixon join our Ph.D. program starting in Fall 2025. Parker joined CBRL last summer and has worked very hard on developing computational models to advance our understanding of uterine smooth muscle cell excitation during pregnancy. His work was selected for the M.S.Student Poster Competition at the upcoming Summer…

We are immensely proud of Hannah Haider for being awarded the NSF GRFP. We thank the NSF for supporting Hannah’s research on creating cardiac digital twins for patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) through this prestigious fellowship. Kudos, Hannah!

We are super proud to see our alum, Elise Yang, headed to Stanford Mechanical Engineering to pursue graduate studies. Congratulations, Elise!

It was wonderful to host Temitope Pereao as part of the Columbia Engineering the Next Generation (ENG) initiative, aimed at introducing research and developing academic and professional skills in high school students from the NYC area. Temitope was mentored by Hannah Haider and Yurui Chen for six weeks, culminating in Temitope giving an excellent presentation…

We all had a nice team lunch at the end of the spring semester, celebrating the passing of the Ph.D. Qualifier Exam by Hannah Haider and Hannah Zhai. Officially, now you both are Ph.D. candidates. It was lovely to have Lei Shi join us with his family and share our joy.

Congratulations to Hannah Haider for giving an outstanding talk at the 2024 World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) in Vancouver, Canada. Despite being Hannah’s first-ever international conference, she traveled alone and presented her exciting research on creating personalized cardiac mechanics models for patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).

We had an excellent outing at the 2024 Summer Biomechanics, Biofluids, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) at the Grand Lake Geneva, WI.  Congratulations to Hannah Zhai and Yurui Chen for giving excellent poster presentations on multiscale modeling of blood flow and fluid-structure interaction in the aorta. Congratulations Lei Shi, for two great talks on creating personalized…

We are thrilled to share that we were awarded an NIH R21 Exploratory Grant to develop computational tools to assist clinical decision-making in neonates with congenital heart disease (borderline left ventricles). Check our Research page to learn more about the project’s background and goals.