Research Portfolio

Project Showcase

Selected research projects, tools, and computational work spanning cardiovascular CFD, biomedical image analysis, cerebrovascular modeling, and engineering education.

🫀 Aortic Valve FSI · CAVD Biomarkers
CFD · FSI · Biomarkers
CFD/FSI Cardiovascular FEA
PhD Dissertation — Computational CAVD Biomarker Pipeline
Developed and validated TAWSS and OSI as pre-symptomatic CAVD biomarkers through patient-specific FSI simulations spanning 50+ valve geometries across clinical sizes and disease grades.
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Interactive · JS · Canvas
Neuroscience Simulation Educational
Hodgkin–Huxley Neuron Model
Interactive RK4 simulator of the Nobel Prize-winning 1952 action potential model with real-time plots, parameter controls, channel blockers, and phase portraits.
Interactive 2D gas simulation
Physics · Kinetics
Software Physics
Maxwell–Boltzmann Gas Simulator (2D)
Hard-disk molecular dynamics simulation showing emergent MB speed distribution. Includes live histogram, theoretical curve, and full derivation.
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CFD · FSI
CFD Cardiovascular FSI
CAVD Hemodynamic Biomarkers
Patient-specific FSI pipeline identifying TAWSS and OSI as pre-symptomatic markers of calcific aortic valve disease.
🩸 Add viscosity comparison figure
Non-Newtonian
CFD Blood Rheology
Non-Newtonian Blood Flow Modeling
Benchmarked four viscosity models in severely calcified aortic valve geometries; identified where Newtonian assumption fails.
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CFD · In Vitro
CFD Vascular
Arteriovenous Fistula Bypass Flow Model
Multi-zone in vitro device + CFD to study endothelial mechanotransduction across disturbed, physiological, and stagnant flows.
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Multiscale · MATLAB
Transport Cerebrovascular MATLAB
Cerebrovascular Nitric Oxide Transport
Multiscale Green's Function solver for NO diffusion across 3D mouse brain microvascular networks.
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Stochastic · CTMC
Calcium Signaling MATLAB
IP₃R Stochastic Calcium Signaling
CTMC model of IP₃R gating in brain capillary endothelial cells; 3D calcium diffusion in ellipsoidal cell geometry.
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Image Processing · MATLAB
Image Analysis MATLAB GUI
SEM Fiber Diameter Analysis GUI
Automated MATLAB GUI for electrospun fiber diameter measurement from SEM images using Gabor filtering and distance transform.
🕸 Add vasculature graph render
Graph · NIfTI · MATLAB
Image Analysis MATLAB Cerebrovascular
Brain Vasculature Graph Pipeline
MATLAB pipeline converting 20 GB NIfTI mouse brain segmentations into skeleton graphs for 1D Hagen-Poiseuille network flow simulation.
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Web Tool
CFD FEA Web
FEA / CFD Engineering Calculator
25+ client-side calculators covering Y+, turbulence BCs, blood rheology, WSS/OSI, beam deflection, and unit conversion.
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