Digital twins in computational hemodynamics

Our lab is looking for hungry and foolish new undergraduate researchers working on digital twins for cardiovascular simulation. Specifically, we are looking for dedicated and resilient students to help us with a NIH-funded project on peripheral pulmonary artery disease. 

You will be responsible to create cardiovascular models in SimVascular, tune boundary conditions so they match with patient-specific blood pressure/flow measurement, perform virtual surgery on patient-specific anatomical models using physics-based sculpting, and train deep neural networks to make predictions. You may also be responsible to contribute models to the vascular model repository

Name of research group, project, or lab
The Schiavazzi Lab
Why join this research group or lab?

Our group is actively conducting research at the interface of various disciplines, including:

  • Numerical analysis applied to cardiovascular modeling.
  • Data-driven physics-informed modeling and deep learning.
  • Solution of inverse problems with focus on numerical hemodynamics.

A paper that was recently published by an undergraduate student working in our lab can be found at this link

Logistics Information:
Project categories
Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Student ranks applicable
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Student qualifications

You will learn through hands-on practice, and by gradually reading additional material as you progress with the work.

Hours per week
1 credit / 3-6 hours
2 credits / 6-12 hours
3 credits / 12+ hours
Compensation
Research for Credit
Number of openings
2
Techniques learned

In this project you will be initiate to a number of topics, including:

  • Cardiovascular physiology.
  • Solution of ODE models in the context of lumped parameter hemodynamics.
  • Optimization and boundary condition tuning. 
  • Numerical analysis (specifically: stabilized finite element methods for fluid dynamics).
  • Create and train neural network models in Pytorch. 
Project start
Fall 2024
Contact Information:
Mentor
dschiava@nd.edu
Associate Professor/PI
Name of project director or principal investigator
Daniele Schiavazzi
Email address of project director or principal investigator
dschiavazzi@nd.edu
2 sp. | 7 appl.
Hours per week
1 credit / 3-6 hours (+2)
1 credit / 3-6 hours2 credits / 6-12 hours3 credits / 12+ hours
Project categories
Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics