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Director of the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation. Alfred Winborne Mordecai and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Research in HPC and digital twins for health.
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🧪 From diagnosis to treatment, extended reality is reshaping care at Duke. At the Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, XR is powering smarter, more human healthcare—from deep brain stimulation to immersive surgical training. Learn more: duke.is/ccdhivr #XR #MedTech #VR

🎓 So proud to share that Cyrus Tanade successfully defended his PhD! His work on cardiovascular digital twins advanced tools like LHMF & HarVI. An incredible journey from remote start to real impact. Onward to Samsung Research America! 💙 #PhDone #ProudPI #HPC #CVD @dukeengineering.bsky.social

For more information on the Center's efforts with wearable sensors, check out this video.🧪⚛️ 👩‍🔬‬

🧪 Wearable tech is redefining patient care. At Duke's Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, we’re using real-time data to detect issues early, monitor progression, and personalize treatment. Explore our work: comphealth.duke.edu/wearables-in... #WearableTech #DigitalHealth

🧪⚛️ FFR is the standard for stent decisions—but is it enough? Using physics-based blood flow models, we found that Vorticity may help identify which gray-zone patients could benefit from treatment. Read more: duke.is/jaha24

Excited to share our feature in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering on the 2024 Sony Women in Technology Award! Honored to be included with Kiana Aran, Jiawen Li & Yating Wan. We reflect on the breakthroughs, challenges & what drives us.🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442... #WomenInSTEM #SonyWomenInTech

🧪Wires in arteries? Not always necessary. We validated HARVEY—a simulation that estimates FFR from angiography data. ✅ AUC 0.91 ✅ 90.2% PPV ✅ 95.4% specificity Noninvasive. Accurate. From routine images. 🔗 duke.is/jaha24 #DigitalTwins #Cardiology

📣 Call for Papers! The IEEE-EMBS Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2025 conference is now open for submissions. Proud to share that #CDHI Center member @drjessilyn.bsky.social is a Technical Program Co-Chair! 🔗 bsn.embs.org/2025/

Excited to share that two papers from our group were accepted to #ICCS2025! 🧪 Congrats to Aristotle Martin and Samreen Mahmud on leading work in adaptive physics for cancer transport and digital twins for single-cell analysis. More soon! 🎉 #DigitalTwins #CCDHI #CompHealth @dukeubme.bsky.social

Five Center-mentored undergrads presented senior research this week -- advancing AI, immune engineering, and digital health. Excited to congratulate the next generation of innovators! 🧪 Read more: duke.is/gwdd25 #FindTrackTreat #CDHI #Research

🎓 Senior BME student Venkata Srikar Kavirayuni tackled AI-driven drug discovery in his GWDD project, using generative models to map cell states to novel molecules. Mentored by @pranam.bsky.social, his work on Metric Flow Matching shows promise for targeted cell reprogramming! 🧪 #CompHealth #CCDHI

🧪 At Duke, researchers are using digital twins—virtual replicas of human organs and systems—to study disease, simulate treatments, and push the boundaries of biomedical discovery. 🔗 duke.is/twins #DigitalTwins #Research #ComputationalHealth @dukeengineering.bsky.social

Congrats to Juliet Jiang on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! We're so proud of her and can't wait to see what she accomplishes! comphealth.duke.edu/news/juliet-...

Don't forget there is a fantastic seminar today at 2pm EST! Open to all online and please join us to hear more about fantastic work with ML for arterial health classification.🧪 🔗 duke.is/CompHealth-April-Seminar #AIforhealth #CompHealth

Excited to share our latest work on how arterial waveform shape impacts blood flow simulations. 🩸 We pinpoint which parts of the waveform most influence hemodynamics—across coronary, carotid & pulmonary arteries. 🔗 duke.is/wavelet #DigitalTwins #CFD #HPC #CompHealth @dukeubme.bsky.social 🧪

🧪 Thrilled to announce the Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation! 🚀 Uniting engineers, scientists & clinicians to transform healthcare with wearables, HPC & XR/AI. We're tackling the toughest challenges. Goal: Find, Track, Treat. Learn more & collaborate: comphealth.duke.edu

🧪 🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Our latest work on HarVI—the newest tool in our digital twin ecosystem with HARVEY + HarVis—is now out! 🔗 duke.is/jcsharvi #DigitalTwins #ComputationalHealth @dukeubme.bsky.social #AIinMedicine

🧪 📣Join us April 16 at 2PM ET for the next Computational Health Seminar! Wilkins Aquino presents: “A Machine Learning Framework for Arterial Health Classification using Ultrasound Vibrometry Data” 📍 Virtual | 🔗 duke.is/CompHealth-A... #DigitalHealth #MachineLearning @dukeubme.bsky.social

Incredible energy at the BME Reunions! 🔬💥 Students heard from alumni on navigating career decisions—no one path, just choices that open/close doors. Huge thanks to our panelists + BEPSA for a great reception. Proud of our BME community! 💙 @dukeubme.bsky.social #MentorshipMatters #ForeverDuke

​Duke BME alumni and students:​ 1:30 PM: Conversations with Alumni Panel in Hudson Hall 207.​ 2:30 PM: BME Alumni Reception in Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium.​ Join us today to connect and celebrate! #ForeverDuke #DukeBMEReunion @dukeubme.bsky.social

🧪Join the Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation for our next online seminar — open to all! 🌐 🗓️ Date: 3/26/25 🕒 Time: 2pm EST 🎙️ Speaker: Ryan Shaw 🔗 Attend: duke.is/CompHealth-March-Seminar

🚀 Honored to be named one of HPCwire’s 2025 People to Watch! Grateful for the community’s support of our digital twins research. Huge thanks to my team at Duke, collaborators, and mentors—this wouldn’t be possible without you! 🔗 duke.is/peopletowatch25 #HPC #PeopleToWatch #DigitalTwins 🚀

Exciting news! 🌟 Head over to pratt.duke.edu to see some of our cutting-edge research featured on the homepage! Huge thanks to Joe Insley from ANL for bringing it to life with an amazing video! 🎥🔬 #Innovation #DigitalHealth #DukeEngineering

Excited to be featured in the Women in Academia Report as we kick off #WomensHistoryMonth! Honored to be recognized alongside inspiring women pushing biomedical technology forward. Grateful for the mentors, collaborators, and students who make this journey possible. 🔗 duke.is/wia #WomenInSTEM

Earlier this semester, we were excited to have Ben Hezrony join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! He will be applying machine learning to advance cardiovascular and carotid research. Happy to have him on the team and looking forward to all that’s ahead! #MachineLearning #CVD #HPC #Teamwork

🧪 🚀 Can we predict immune responses with supercomputers? Proud of Aristotle Martin for leading this work—what started as a class project is now a scalable 3D immune model running at 350x speedup! Huge step for HPC-driven immunology. 📄 Read more: [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2025.102555]

Recently had the honor of giving a Gilbreth Lecture at NAE! 🎤🔬 Sharing my work on digital twins with NAE members & high school students was incredible. Grateful to NAE & The Grainger Foundation for this opportunity! #NAE #GilbrethLecture #EngineeringInnovation #DigitalTwins

🧪 🫀 Doctors track heart disease by comparing vascular scans over time—but aligning them manually is slow and subjective. We developed an AI algorithm that automatically identifies landmarks and aligns scans with precision, saving time and effort. 📖 Read more: 🔗 duke.is/embc3

🧪 Thrilled to have collaborated with an amazing team of HPC experts on this Science policy forum article! We explore the challenges and future of HPC, highlighting the urgent need for a long-term vision in the US. 📖: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #HPC #SciencePolicy #ComputationalScience

Join us Wednesday February 19th for a virtual seminar from @fordversyptlab.bsky.social: "Systems Biomedicine & Pharmaceutics: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Remodeling, Damage, and Treatments." 🧪Attend: duke.is/CompHealth-F...

Join us for the Computational Health Virtual Seminar Series! 📅 Feb 19, 2025, 2:00 PM EST. @fordversyptlab.bsky.social will give a virtual talk: "Systems Biomedicine & Pharmaceutics: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Remodeling, Damage, and Treatments." Open to all! 🌍 Attend: duke.is/CompHealth-F...

How does blood cell shape affect health? 🩸 Using HARVEY, we showed that stiff, sickle-shaped cells migrate toward vessel walls, disrupting flow and raising pressure—boosting the risk of blockages and rupture. Read more: duke.is/embc24sickle...

Beyond honored to be named one of the winners of the inaugural Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature! Being recognized alongside such an extraordinary group of women driving innovation makes this even more special. Thank you to Sony and Nature for this incredible honor! #womeninstem 🧪

Getting ready for the seminar today at 2pm EST. Open to anyone to join to hear more about our work with digital twins.🧪

Honored to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (#PECASE). This reflects the incredible efforts of my students, mentors, collaborators, and NSF program officers who believed in our vision for computational modeling and digital twins. Read more: duke.is/pecase

🧪 🌟 Join the Computational Health Seminar Series! 🌟 🗓️ January 15, 2025 | 🕒 2:00pm | Virtual I'll be presenting "Digital Twins in Healthcare: Using Advanced Modeling to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Care." 🍩 Duke folks: Coffee & doughnuts after in Wilkinson! 🔗 Attend: duke.is/CompHealth-J...

What are your Christmas Eve traditions? A few years ago we started giving out Christmas cards to houses with Christmas lights our kids like the best. It’s become a fun part of our Christmas and I kinda love it :)

I got to chat with Dean Jerry Lynch about the transformative potential of #DigitalTwins, our new Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, and, of course, some @dukembb.bsky.social. 🎥 Watch our conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTGe... #HealthInnovation #DukeEngineering🧪

Two more days to submit your #researchpaper to #ISC25!

🎉 The Randles Lab wrapped up 2024 with a fun end-of-year party! Highlights included a potluck 🍴, puzzle competition 🧩, cookie decorating judged by seguralab.bsky.social 🍪, 'Guess Who the Fact is About' game, White Elephant 🎁, and live music 🎶 by Jorik Stoop! Cheers to 2025! 🥂 #RandlesLab

Did you grow up reading the Ask Me Why books? 🌟 I did, and they sparked my love for science! 🚀 I had the chance to chat with HPCwire about what inspired me to pursue this path and why I’m thrilled to be part of #ISC25. Check out the article: www.hpcwire.com/2024/12/13/c...

Happening now! Interested in #DigitalHealth and #Wearables? Join @drjessilyn.bsky.social's fantastic talk going on now. 🧪 #WomenInStem @dukeubme.bsky.social

3D fluid models are powerful but computationally expensive tools for monitoring heart disease. Can simpler, snapshot-based simulations provide similar insights? Our study suggests they might—though key differences mean caution is needed. Led by two amazing undergrads! 🩺🖥️ 🧪

🎁 It’s almost time for our lab’s annual White Elephant Gift Exchange! 🎄 Lego sets and cooking gadgets have been past favorites. What creative or fun gift ideas do you have for this year? Drop your suggestions below! (P.S. DALL-E thinks our party looks like this 😄).

Excited for the next Computational Health Seminar! On Dec. 11 at 2 PM EST, @drjessilyn.bsky.social will share "The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring." Come learn how wearable tech is shaping the future of health. Open to all—see you there! 🌟 #DigitalHealth #Wearables