Research

Research Areas

  • Cardiac Solid Mechanics

    Study how cardiac tissue deforms and responds to physiological conditions (e.g., exercise, pregnancy) and diseases (e.g., hypertension, myocardial infarction).

  • Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics

    Analyze the flow of blood within the body. Fluid dynamics are essential in developing tissue-engineered vascular grafts, aneurysm formation, and congenital heart diseases.

  • Growth and Remodeling

    Understand and predict long-term tissue adaptation in regeneration and disease progression to identify patients at risk and enable personalized therapies.

Approach and tools

  • Finite Element Simulations

    Fuse multi-modal imaging data (e.g., MRI, CT, ultrasound) with measurements (e.g., blood pressure, ECG) to generate 3D continuum models of patients’ hearts and blood vessels.

  • Reduced Order Modeling

    Physics-based (e.g., 1D/0D fluid dynamics) and data-driven (e.g., POD) models allow fast repeated model evaluations (e.g., optimization, parameter estimation)

  • Uncertainty Quantification

    Accounts for variations in input parameters and boundary conditions to quantify the reliability of our findings by providing probability distributions of our predictions.

Collaborators

Funding

We are currently supported by NIH award R00HL161313 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ($1M, 2022-2027).