Our Research Group
Principal Investigator
Dr. Owais Khan
Lab Director
Dr. Owais Khan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering
Toronto Metropolitan University
Education:
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B.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 2011
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M.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 2013
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Ph.D., University of Toronto/University of Oslo, 2017
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Postdoc, Stanford University, 2020
Dr. Owais Khan became interested in cardiovascular biomechanics while taking a 4th year fluid mechanics course, and went on to do a masters and PhD in fluid mechanics of cardiovascular systems. He won a competitive scholarship to pursue a joint PhD program between the University of Toronto and Simula Research Lab (Norway) at the University of Oslo. In his Ph.D., Dr. Khan developed computational fluid dynamics methods to model blood flow in brain aneurysms. In the last year of his PhD, Dr. Khan won the MITACS Globalink Research Award that allowed him to intern at the University of Montpellier (France) to explore large-eddy simulation models for application in turbulent cardiovascular flows. After graduating, Dr. Khan joined the Stanford University School of Medicine, funded by the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and prestigious American Heart Association Fellowship. While at Stanford, Dr. Khan developed computational and imaging analysis methods for coronary artery disease and heart bypass patients.
Graduate Students
Anahita Abbasnejad
Ph.D Student
Anahita Abbasnejad
Ph.D Student
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Toronto Metropolitan University
Education:
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B.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology, 2018
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M.Sc., Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, 2021
Anahita earned her B.Sc in biomedical engineering, primarily working on circuit design to measure biomedical signals. During her Masters, Ana focused in array processing and medical ultrasound image reconstruction methods. She joined CIMBL in Fall 2021, and is currently engaged in research on CTA image analysis coupled with computational fluid dynamics simulations. Her research aims to create computational methods for measuring blood flow and detecting coronary artery disease in heart disease patients.
Vivian Tan
MASc Student
Vivian Tan
MASc Student
Department of Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering
Toronto Metropolitan University
Education:
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B.A.Sc., Toronto Metropolitan University, 2023
Vivian joined CIMBL in 2021 as an undergraduate student and continued into a MASc program. Vivian's research aims to better understand the blood flow dynamics in aortic physiology of children who undergo complex heart reconstruction surgeries due to congenital heart defects. Vivian also collaborates with The Hospital for Sick Children to use 3D printing cardiac anatomies to improve surgical strategies in children with heart defects.
Aayush Chakravartti
Aayush Chakravartti
MASc Student
Department of Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering
Toronto Metropolitan University
Education:
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B.A.Sc., Toronto Metropolitan University, 2023
Aayush joined CIMBL in Summer of 2023 as an undergraduate student again in 2023 as an Accelerated MASc student. Aayush is developing MRI-based diagnostic methods, particularly focusing on vessel-wall imaging, for brain aneurysms. He works in collaboration with the radiology team at the University of Washington.
MASc Student
Alumni
Undergraduate Students
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Marium Farooqi - Summer 2021
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Kayla Javadifar - Summer 2021
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Zahra Saeed - Summer 2021
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Vivian Tan - 2021 to 2023.