Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series

Title: Digital twin modeling of blood flow

Abstract: Combining medical imaging and other clinical data with mathematical modeling has become an important paradigm in digital twin modeling of cardiovascular dynamics. Such modeling often entails two major steps. The first is development of a patient-specific computer model, and the second is simulating the physiology. This talk will discuss recent efforts to automate and speed up this, previously time-consuming, process using machine learning and reduced-order simulation, and concomitantly, the open-source project, SimVascular, which provides a platform for image-based simulation analysis.

Bio: Shawn Shadden is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and a core member of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Bioengineering. His research focuses on the computational modeling of cardiovascular biomechanics and the advancement of theoretical and numerical methods to quantify complex fluid flow. He is recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Bakar Faculty Fellow Award, Hellman Faculty Fellow Award, and American Heart Association's Established Investigator Award. His lab helps develop the SimVascular software platform, widely used in the field of cardiovascular modeling.

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