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News & events

  • May 2025: Julian Carvajal successfully defends his dissertation proposal effectively becoming a Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate. 

  • January 2025: Merjulah Roby and co-authors publish paper titled "Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm from Computed Tomography Angiography Using a Patch-based Dilated U-Net Model,” IEEE Access, Vol. 13, pp. 24544-24554, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3533417.

  • January 2025: Vivian Reyna and co-authors publish paper titled “On the relative effects of wall and intraluminal thrombus constitutive material properties in abdominal aortic aneurysm wall stress,” Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 66-78, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-024-00757-8. 

  • November 2024: Pratik Mitra successfully defends his dissertation proposal effectively becoming a Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate. 

  • November 2024: Juan Restrepo successfully defends his dissertation proposal effectively becoming a Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate. 

  • October 2024: Two podium talk presentations at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA). 

  • August 2024: Simon Rios becomes a VBBL graduate research assistant and Mechanical Engineering PhD student. 

  • August 2024: Julian Carvajal joins VBBL as a graduate research assistant in the Mechanical Engineering PhD program. 

  • June 2024: Two posters and one podium talk presented at the 2024 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (Geneva Lake, WI). 

  • January 2024: Simon Rios joins VBBL as a J-1 visiting scholar. 

  • October 2023: Podium presentation at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (Seattle, WA). 

  • June 2023: Two posters presented at the 2023 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (Vail, CO). 

  • May 2023: Vivian Reyna graduates with a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering. 

  • April 2023: Vivian Reyna successfully defends MS Thesis titled "A Finite Element Modeling Study of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Biomechanics Based on the Relative Effects of Wall and Intraluminal Thrombus Constitutive Material Properties". 

  • January 2023: Dr. Merjulah Roby joins VBBL as a post-doctoral research fellow. 

  • August 2022: Pratik Mitra joins VBBL as a graduate research assistant and Mechanical Engineering PhD student. 

  • August 2022: Juan Restrepo joins VBBL as a graduate research assistant and Mechanical Engineering PhD student. 

  • January 2022: Vivian Reyna joins VBBL as a graduate teaching assistant and Mechanical Engineering MS student. 

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