Scale Wars: Leveraging Multiscale Blood Flow Modeling for Cardiovascular Disease Therapy Venkat Keshav Chivukula, PhDAssistant Professor, Department of Biomedical EngineeringFlorida Institute of Technology Corrinne Bahr Memorial Lecture Increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease worldwide has led to growing dependence on medical device therapies such as ventricular assist devices, mechanical heart valves and other blood-contacting devices. However,...

Light up the path toward smart and precision chem/bio sensing and imaging Wei-Chuan Shih, PhDCullen Professor; Electrical & Computer EngineeringUniversity of Houston AbstractLight matter interactions can provide rich compositional information from various samples in a non-invasive fashion. Our laboratory has developed opto-analytical spectroscopy, imaging, and sensing technologies to address unmet needs across various biological length...