Computational Bio-Modeling Lab's research includes Computational Geometry (especially mesh generation), Computer Graphics, Visualization, Finite Element Method, Isogeometric Analysis and their applications in Computational Biomedicine, Computational Biology and Engineering. We are mainly focusing on applications in biomedical fields, but we are also working on projects in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Geological Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.

Director:

Yongjie Jessica Zhang George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Courtesy Appointment in Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate Students:

Tsung-Yeh Hsieh Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering Fall 2024 - Present Email: tsungyeh@andrew.cmu.edu

Vedant Puri Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering (co-advised by Prof Burak Kara) Summer 2023 - Present Email: vedantpu@andrew.cmu.edu

Uma Sharma PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering (co-advised by Prof Philip LeDuc) Spring 2025 - Present Email: umas@andrew.cmu.edu

Hua Tong Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering Fall 2022 - Present Email: huat2@andrew.cmu.edu

Parth Burujwale MS Student in Artificial Intelligence Engineering - Biomedical Engineering Fall 2025 - Present Email: pburujwa@andrew.cmu.edu

Rohit Garikipati Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering Spring 2025 - Present Email: rgarikip@andrew.cmu.edu

Alumni:

Aviral Prakash, Postdoc, 2023-2024 (now Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laborary)
Xuan Liang, Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, 2020-2022 (now Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Hugo Casquero Penelas, Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, 2017-2020 (now Assistant Professor at University of Michigan, Dearborn)
Xiaodong Wei, Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, 2017-2018 (now Associate Professor at University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute)
Hong Zhang, Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, 2011-2013 (now Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
Mohamed Ebeida, Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering, 2008-2010 (now Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratory)

Kuanren Qian, PhD student, 2020-2025 (now at Amazon)
Ashlee Liao, PhD student, 2019-2024 (now Post Doctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
Lisha White, PhD student, 2021-2023 (now Mechancial Engineer at NIST)
Angran Li, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, 2016-2022 (now Postdoc at University of Colorado Boulder)
Yuxuan Yu, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, 2017-2021 (now Assistant Professor in Donghua University, Shanghai, China)
Aishwarya Pawar, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, 2016-2020 (now Assistant Professor at Iowa State Universiy)
Xiaodong Wei, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, 2013-2017 (now Associate Professor at University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute)
Arjun Kumar, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, 2013-2016 (now Software Engineer at Google, Boston)
Kangkang Hu, Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, 2012-2016 (now Technical Director at Huawei, China)
Tao Liao, Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2011-2015 (now Software Engineer at Google, Boston)
Lei Liu, Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2011-2015 (now Software Engineer at Google, Seattle)
Jin Qian, Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2008-2013 (now Investment Director at Huatai Ruilian Fund, Beijing)
Xinghua Liang, Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2008-2013 (now Lead Research Engineer at HERE Technologies)
Wenyan Wang, Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2008-2012 (now Lead Software Developer at ANSYS, Chicago)
Erick Johnson, Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2009-2010 (now Associate Professor at Montana State University)

Hannah Manheimer, MS student in Biomedical Engineering, 2024 – 2025
Uma Sharma, MS Student in Biomedical Engineering, 2023-2024
Asfandyar Azhar, MS Student in Biomedical Engineering, 2023-2024
Kaixin Zhan, MS-P student in Mechanical Engineering, 2023-2024
Shixuan Gu, MS-P student in BME, Fall 2022-2023 (PhD student in Harvard Computer Science)
Charlotte Avra, MS-P student in BRIDGE program, Summer 2022
Brian Heecheon Kang, MS-P student in Mechanical Engineering, 2019-2020
Max Farfel, MS Student in Materials Science and Engineering (co-advised with Prof. Anthony Rollett), 2019-2020
Kuanren Qian, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2018-2020
Haolin Liu, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Jingru Wu, MS Student in Biomedical Engineering, 2019
Yile Feng, MS-P Student in Biomedical Engineering, 2019
Zilu Wang, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2018-2019
Zisheng Ye, MS-P student in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2017
Lichengxi Huang, MS Student in Civil Engineering, Fall 2016
Shuo Li, MS Student in Civil Engineering, Fall 2016
Yicong Lai, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2014-2016
Aishwarya Pawar, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2014-2015
Shuai Cui, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2015 Fall
Charles Scott Gerfen, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2015 Summer
Joshua Chen, MS-P Student in School of Architecture, 2014-2015
Yang Gao, MS-P Student in Biomedical Engineering, 2014-2015
Chiyu Dong, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2012-2014
Suyue Han, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2012-2014
Ruitian Liu, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2012-2014
You Zhou, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2013-2014
Ling Zhan, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2012-2014
Xiaoyi Fu, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2011-2013
Yuanfeng Jiao, MS-P Student in Biomedical Engineering, 2010-2012
Kibaek Lee, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2011-2012
Yiming Jing, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2009-2011
Jun Ma, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2009-2011
Rong Li, MS-P Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2007-2008

Jaeyong Shim, Undergraduate Student in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Spring 2025
Andrew Porco, Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2024
Thanh Nguyen, Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2024
Christopher Oh, Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2023 and Spring 2024
Akshay Minocha, Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2023
Margaret Chen, Undergraduate student in Mathematics, 2022-2023
Remington Frank-Marquez, Undergraduate student in MechE, SURG, Fall 2022 (co-advised with Prof. Sneha Narra)
Hyunji Kim, Undergraduate student in MechE and BME, 2020-2021, CIT Honored Research 2021-2022
Wenxin Jenna Cui, Undergraduate student in MechE and BME, 2021-2022
Marione Aluoch, Undergraduate student in MechE, Summer 2020-2021
Noel Barnes, Undergraduate student in MechE, Summer 2021
Audrey Young, Undergraduate student in MechE, Summer 2021
Willetta Wisely, Undergraduate student in MechE, Summer 2021
Joshua Turney, Undergraduate student in MechE, Summer 2021
Jialei (Ginny) Liu, Undergraduate student in MechE, Sep. 2019-2020
Sara Begane, NSF REU student in MechE, 06/01-08/17, 2020-2021
Marvin Bennett, NSF REU student in MechE, 06/20-08/20; MechE Honors Research, 2020-2021
Raaga Singireddy, Undergraduate student in ChemE and BME, Fall 2020-2021
Kyuwon Weon, Undergraduate student in MechE and BME, Fall 2020
Kyle Wagner, Undergraduate student in Statistics and Machine Learning, Summer 2020
Jeffrey He, Undergraduate Student in Northwestern University, Summer 2019 and 2020
David Oh, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2019
Brian Kang, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2019
Gregory Miller, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2017
Qingyuan Wu, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2017
Brandon Xu, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2017
Diana Li, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2016
Robert Macedo, Undergraduate Student in Physics, Fall 2014
Conor Fitzgerald, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Summer 2013
Kyung Jae Lee, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2012 (SURF)
Mark Erazo, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2011
Huan (Steve) Qin, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2011
Ojas Mainkar, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Summer 2011 (SURF)
Deborah Gruner, Undergraduate Student in Mathematical Sciences, 2010
Indira Biswas, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2009
Mikhail F. Lara, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, 2008 (SURG)
Julie Hoi Yan Ng, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2008
Changho Oh, Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering, 2007-2008 (SURF)

Yanyang Xiao, PhD Student in Xiamen University, China, 2018-2019 (now faculty in Nanchang University, China)
Yundong Gai, PhD Student in Dalian Institute of Technology, China, 2018-2019
Juan Cao, Visiting Associate Professor from Xiamen University, China, 2017-2018, 2019
Zhonggui Chen, Visiting Associate Professor from Xiamen University, China, 2017-2018, 2019
Yue Jia, Lecturer in Northwestern Polytechnic University, China, 2017-2019
Xin Li, Visiting Scholar from University of Science and Technology of China, 2018
Lifeng Zhu, Visiting Associate Professor from Southeast University, China, 2017-2018
Bin Li, Visiting PhD Student from Zhejiang University, China, 2017-2018 (now faculty in Lanzhou University, China)
Adam Robert Updegrove, Visiting Ph.D. Student from University of California, Berkeley, May-June, 2017
Hugo Casquero Penelas, Visiting Ph.D. Student from University of A Coruna, Spain, 2014-2015, 2016
Onofre Marco Alacid, Visiting Ph.D. Student from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, 2014
Xinge Li, Visiting Ph.D. Student from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2014, 2016
Onofre Marco Alacid, Visiting Ph.D. Student from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, 2013
Yue Jia, Visiting Ph.D. Student from Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany, 2013-2014 (Now at Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China)
Juelin Leng, Ph.D. Student in Chinese Acadmy of Sciences (Visiting Student), 2012
Rui Zhang, Ph.D. Student in School of Architecture (Summer Intern), 2008



Contact:

Computational Biomodeling Lab
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Wean Hall 3420-3422
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel: (412)268-7498