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,…

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.…

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

We had a great outing at the recently concluded Summer Biomechanics Conference (SBC) meeting at Albuquerque in New Mexico. Bryan opened the conference with a fantastic talk on creating digital twins for the left atrium. Hannah Haider followed it with applying our novel digital twinning platform for patients with a genetic disorder (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, HCM).…