Teamwork
Excellence
Inclusivity
Lab head
A/Prof Susann Beier
Associate Professor in Biofluids at UNSW
Fellow of the Cardiovascular Society of Australia and New Zealand
Advanced medical image analysis
Stent design optimisation
Machine learning to understand disease risk
Arterial computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Academics
Dr Darson Li, Associate Lecturer
Computational simulations of multiphysics systems
Advanced drug delivery using magnetic and nanoparticles
Microfluidics and Biofluidics
Discrete element modelling of particulate colloidal systems
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Mingzi Zhang
Modelling of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Image-based estimation of in vivo haemodynamic parameters
Virtual deployment of endovascular devices and surgical implants
Dr. Rashi Walia
Development of biofunctionalized biomaterials
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels
Mechanical and chemical testing of materials
Dr. Ramtin Gharleghi
Disease risk prediction
Computer vision
Dr. Kristofer delas Peñas
Machine learning and biomedical image analysis
3D segmentation
Disease characterisation and risk prediction
Dr. Hamed Keramati
Modelling blood flow and blood vessel interaction
Reduced-order modelling
Uncertainty quantification
PhD Students
Ankush Kapoor
Chi Shen
Shisheng Zhang
Andrea Colombo
Hao Wu
Freddie Wong
Javiera Sanhueza
Robert Verdoes
Dr. med. Kunwar Bhatia
Master’s Students
Dr med. Dona Adikari
Mathias Glombek
Taste of Research Students
Joanne Zreika
Practicum Exchange Students
Vishesh Kashyap (2020)
Felix Heineken (2020)
Undergraduate Students
Jae Hwan: Impingement impact assessment pre-operative and post-operative
Vivian Bakiris: MicroCT reconstruction for benchtop surgery
Heidi Wright: Stent design optimisation
Somesh Khullar: FSI modelling of coronary arteries
Fernan Bautista: 3D printing of realistic coronary artery models
Zoe Marandos: Cell load modelling
Rohan Bhat: Automated coronary artery tree segmentation using deep learning
Jinbo Liu: Multi-objective stent design optimisation
Ronil Lal: Virtual Reality for Stent Implant
Anushan Senthurnathan: FEA modelling for ideal stent designs
Samhita Soman: Measuring knee joint kinematics in post-operative patients of total knee arthroplasty using inertial sensors
Matilda Marriott: MicroCT reconstruction for benchtop surgery and modelling
Chi Shen: Secondary flow profiles in curved bifurcation models
Nicholas Kropf: Flow Measurements in 3-Dimensional Printed Coronary Grafts
Qie Shang (Ivan) Pua: Machine Learning for Personalised Heart Disease Treatment
Vanessa Luvio: Advanced multi-objective stent design optimisation
Darayus Nanavati: Design and validation of a low-cost high channel count biphasic stimulator
Nanway Chen: Unsupervised learning of geometric vessel features
See here, for a list of currently available research thesis projects, and how to get in touch.