Specialized Research Training

  • Pre-Clinical Curriculum (MS1) — Dell Medical School (Audit)
    • Core focus on Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Neurological Systems.
    • Engaged in foundational medical training alongside first-year medical students to better understand clinical terminology and pathology.
  • Simula School in Computational Physiology (SSCP)
    • Intensive residency focused on fundamental principles of mathematical modeling in electrophysiology and biomechanics.
    • Collaborated with FEniCSx developers on finite element software architecture.
  • CUDA Short Course — Prof. Mike Giles (University of Oxford)
    • Deep-dive into GPU-accelerated computing and performance optimization for scientific applications.
  • TACC Visualization Workshop
    • Advanced training in scientific visualization techniques for large-scale simulation data.

Graduate Coursework & Training

A curriculum centered on the intersection of functional analysis, high-performance computing, and clinical pathophysiology.

Core Mathematical Foundations

Course Professor Technical Focus
Methods of Applied Math I and II Koch / Arbogast Functional Analysis and Sobolev Spaces
Non-Self Adjoint Operators Demkowicz Operator Theory and Stability
Continuum Mechanics Heimbach Mathematical Modeling I
Riemannian Geometry (Audit) Danciger Manifold Theory for IGA
Differential Topology (Audit) Payne Topological Foundations

Computational Science and Machine Learning

Course Professor Technical Focus
Variational Inverse Problems Ghattas Adjoint Methods and UQ
Mathematics of Deep Learning Tsai Neural Network Approximation Theory
Numerical Analysis (DiffEq) Engquist High-order Discretization and Stability
Numerical Analysis (Linear Algebra) Biros Parallel Solvers and Complexity
Machine Learning in Solid Mechanics (Audit) Fuhg Data-Driven Constitutive Modeling

Engineering and Clinical Pathophysiology

Course Professor Technical Focus
Biomechanics of Tissues Sacks Soft Tissue Mechanics
Mathematical Pathophysiology Sacks / Chang Computational Disease Modeling
Biomedical Imaging Modalities Bush Clinical Data Acquisition