I am writing this letter to apply for a position as Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering Science at the University of Surrey. My educational background in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and comprehensive research experience in Biomedical Engineering inspired me to apply for this position. I consider that my excellence in teaching and research fulfil the requirements of this post.
I was awarded my PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. My thesis was entitled “Computational Modelling of Neurovascular Hemodynamics and Endovascular Stents to Treat Intracranial Aneurysms”. Looking for a new challenge after the doctorate degree, I moved to Europe and participated multiple
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Research Interests
My research in Biomedical Engineering to date has focused on the medical image based Bio-Fluid Dynamics and medical device modelling. This includes Neurovascular Haemodynamics, Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Dynamics and Respiratory Aerodynamics studies.
Clinical diagnosis support system
I am particularly interested in using computational models to improve the diagnostic assessment of disease progression and to support the clinical decision making. For an instance, medical imaging is recognised as an important tool to estimate the flow properties in the fight against circulatory system diseases. However, rapidly changing flow properties in the medical images could be overlooked, even by highly experienced clinicians. Computational modelling and machine learning algorithm as a part of implanted software in the medical imaging devices can help to reveal those flow characteristics and provide relevant information to the clinicians.
Endovascular device/drug delivery system modelling
My research interests also lie in medical device modelling. Endovascular therapy is known as a minimally invasive therapeutic option to recover the original flow circulations in diseased arteries. Computational modelling techniques can accurately assess the effect of endovascular intervention devices. I have modelled neurovascular stents and coils to treat intracranial aneurysms to demonstrated their
I aspire to become a successful researcher applying mechanical engineering principles to tackle human health issues. My exposure to patients at the VA Medical Center has motivated me to concentrate my academic goals and future scientific career on contributing to technological advancement of human health.
David has consistently proven himself to be a student who is devoted to learning for learning's sake and never shirks from a challenge. Over the course of the past year, David has gone above and beyond what was required of him to sharpen his already considerable lab skills and device design abilities. I believe he would thrive in a graduate department of engineering, based upon the skills he has shown both as an undergraduate major in biomedical engineering and in his work at our lab.
Thus the networks of observations and mathematics have taken an important place in medicine. The establishment of modeling allows to observe the operation of these diseases and help to predict their evolution. These observations give indeed information on these diseases and help to predict their evolution. it gives information about the methods to anticipate and counter such diseases. So there are many mathematical models that have been created matrix calculating base such as Model SI SIR and construction to provide the points of
I am attending St. Catharine in hopes of obtaining a bachelor’s degree in radiographic technology, as well as certification in CT and possibly MRI. For now and for the sake of the paper, however, I will concentrate
The simulator is placed under the image-guided FUS surgical environment. Multiple image technologies is used for the FUS therapy experiment. X-Ray (OEC9900, GE, USA), MR scan (1.5T, GE, USA) are used to image the perfusing model.
My entry into biomedical engineering is by no means a chance of occurrence. In 3rd grade I remember reading my first book about the fascinating planets that are within our own solar system other than Earth. This was my start as I became interested into all the facets of science as it came with the amazing advancement of humans historically from the discovery of other planets to the moon landing. With time, I have grown interested and love for technology and how technology has grown to function within modern day society. In high school, I then acquired a passion for the applications of
From this website I learned the biomedical engineers work to improve the lives of people through the medical field. Biomedical engineers do not only work to help treat people in the present, but they work to improve and simplify the medical field for the future. Before reading this article, I was unaware that the field on biomedical engineering was behind the inventions of devices such as prosthetics, insulin pumps, pacemakers, etc. I chose this website because it defined biomedical engineering, showed the many inventions of biomedical engineers and also spoke about the requirements of a biomedical engineer.
I am confident in my experiences, knowledge, and strong interests in biomechanics. Thank you for your time and
Finding answers can be very fulfilling, and so can finding new questions. There are yet more questions out there. The idea of incorporating the abstractness of radiology and its depth of knowledge on the human body with an actual body needing intervention was something that genuinely intrigued me. Consequently, after I graduated from medical school, I joined the research team of the Interventional Radiology Section at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to study intra-arterial therapies. My hard work as a volunteer was appreciated, and I was offered a paid research position to investigate novel imaging modalities and thermal ablation treatments.
The important parameters that affect the detection and tracking can be classified in to 3 broad categories; endovascular devices, projection geometry and motion. At first, the detection of various shapes and radio-opaque devices is a challenge. Secondly, the detection is challenged by image magnification and image geometry by various projections (Cranio-caudal tilt). Thirdly, and importantly real-time tracking challenged by the patient motion and the deformation of the vessel.
The best part of this work is it is not monotonous, because every new combination yields different and fascinating results, and can mean revolution if implemented successfully by myself. Secondly, the work is highly practical, as most of it is in a laboratory and based on experiments. This would give me great deal of room for using my brain in unconventional ways. Thirdly,the job is tech savvy. Be it the use of complex computer algorithms in bio-informatics or programmable centrifuge techniques, it will help me get exposed to the latest technology in application areas of electronics and computers.
As this had been my first teaching position, I was thrown at the deep end and the learning curve was surely steep. This one year of teaching in the well-known institution enabled me to keep acquainted of new developments in the field of physics and Engineering, taught me to be certain and accurate of my factual knowledge and challenged me to be more analytical and creative in my approach to
I was once often told that I will never be able to use English like a native speaker in my younger school years. English is my third language. To many linguist, I may be regarded as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student. There may even me preconceived prejudiced notions that I do not use English enough or that I do not have much use of English to be able to attain native-like proficiency in the language. I am one of the EFL learners of English who is not demotivated to learn and use the language despite obvious criticism at a young age.
Academically, I was in the top 10 of the BDS 1994 graduating class from the College of Dentistry, Baghdad University (ranked the 5th among 171 students). I finished my MSc in 1997 and PhD in 2002 in conservative dentistry. My doctoral
Later, I was selected for the post of Project Trainee at the Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility Centre at Queen Mary’s College, Chennai where I am currently working (since November 2010) on projects based on Biomedical Imaging and Analysis (DIP) under Dr. G. Usha. I have done a project on ‘Fully Automated Segmentation and Tracking of the Intima Media Thickness (IMT) in the Ultrasound Image Sequences of the Common Carotid Artery’. Automatic Region of Interest detection, Extraction by adaptive thresholding, Despeckling, Binarization using OTSU’s