• Congratulations, Aaron

    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

    78th APS DFD Meeting, Houston

    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

    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

    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

    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…