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Principal Investigator

Name:

Yap Choon Hwai, Ph.D.

Qualifications:

2006-2011

Ph.D.

Bioengineering

(Georgia Institute of Technology)

2000-2001

M.S.

Civil Engineering

(California Institute of Technology)

1997-2000

B.S.

Civil Engineering

(Cornell University)

Appointment:

Senior Lecturer, Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Email: c.yap@imperial.ac.uk

Lab Members

Chan, Wei Xuan

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Department of Biomedical Engineering, NUS

Qualifications:

2016	Ph.D.	Mechanical Engineering (Nanyang Technological University)
2011	B.Eng.	Aerospace Engineering (Nanyang Technological University)

Research Interests:

- Computational Fluid Dynamics of biomechanical system

- Theoretical model of biomechanical system

Email: biecwx@nus.edu.sg

Laura Green

Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2015-2019

M.Eng

Mechanical Engineering (University of Birmingham)

Research Interests:

- Finite Element Modelling of Fetal Heart

- Fetal Heart Intervention Biomechanics

- Predictive Finite Element Modelling

Email: leg120@ic.ac.uk

Adriana Gaia Cairelli

Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2018-2020	M.S.	Biomedical Engineering - Biomechanics and Biomaterials (Politecnico di Milano)
2015-2018	B.S.	Biomedical Engineering (Politecnico di Milano)

Research Interests:

- Embryonic Heart Computational Fluid Dynamics

- Mechanobiology of Cardiac Trabeculations

Email: gc1920@ic.ac.uk

Wong, Hong Shen (Sean)

Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2015-2020

M.Eng

Biomedical Engineering with a Year in Industry (Imperial College London)

Research Interests:

- Improving outcomes for Fetal Heart Intervention - Fetal Aortic Stenosis (FAS)

- Computational Fluid Dynamics of Fetal Hearts

- Fetal Heart Intervention Biomechanics

Email: hsw15@ic.ac.uk

Ding, Wen Hao

Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2019-2023

M.Eng

Road and Railway Engineering (Southwest Jiaotong University)

Research Interests:

- Physics-informed Deep Learning for Computational Fluid Dynamics

- Aneurysm Progression Prediction

Email: wd123@ic.ac.uk

Mu, Siyu (Snow)

Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2021-2022	M.Sc	Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Communications and Signal Processing (Imperial College London)
2017-2021	B.Eng	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (University of Nottingham)

Research Interests:

- Motion Tracking in echocardiography

- Application of Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) in FEM

Email: siyu.mu21@imperial.ac.uk

Hasan, Md Kamrul

Ph.D. Student, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2019	M.S.	Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s in Medical Imaging and Applications (uB, France; UNICAS, Italy; and UdG, Spain)
2017	M.Eng	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh)
2014	B.Eng	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh)

Research Interests:

- Medical Image Computing

- Computer Vision

Email: k.hasan22@imperial.ac.uk

Sesia, Dario Roberto

Ph.D. Student, Department of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2022-2023	M.Res	Biomedical Research – Cardiovascular & Respiratory (Imperial College London)
2015-2019	M.Eng	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Imperial College London)

Research Interests:

- Leveraging machine learning for rapid cardiovascular prognostics and novel disease indicators.

- Finite element modelling of reconstructed hearts from 2D echocardiograms.

Email: dds222@ic.ac.uk

Manneh, Fama

PhD Student

National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London

Qualifications:

2022	MRes	Biomedical Research (Imperial College London)
2021	BSc	Biomedical Science (Queen Mary University of London)

Research Interests:

- Haemostatic devices

- Coagulation and platelet technology

Email: f.manneh21@imperial.ac.uk

Alumni

Dr. Muhammad Jamil

Research Fellow (2014-2016)

Current Appointment: Senior Mechanical Engineering, Koc University, Turkey

Dr. Lai Chang Quan

Research Fellow (2014-2015)

Current Appointment: Principal Investigator, Nanyang Technological University

Saw Shier Nee

Ph.D. Student (2014-2018)

Current Appointment: Senior Lecturer, Department of AI, University of Malaya

Li Zhe

Research Fellow (2016-2019)

Current Appointment: Associate Professor, Sun Zhong Shan University, China

Vivek Vasudevan

Research Fellow (2016-2020)

Current Appointment: Research Fellow, A*Star Biotransformation Information Platform

Hadi Wiputra

Ph.D. Student (2015-2019)

Current Appointment: Research Fellow, National University of Singapore

Sheldon Ho

Ph.D. Student (2015-2019)

Current Appointment: CBRNE Engineer, Home Team Technology Agency, Singapore.

Foo, Yoke Yin

Ph.D. Student (2016-2020)

Current Appointment: Application Specialist, Fisher Scientific

Yu Zheng

Ph.D. Student (2018-2022)

Meifeng Ren

Ph.D. Student (2019-2023)

Yibing Dong

Research Fellow (2021-2022)