Professor Mark Driscoll, Eng., Ph.D.

Cornelius Hart

Working on the accurate volumetric simulation of muscles during contraction.

Alain Dagher

Working on the 3D construction of a spine model, inclusive of soft tissue, from segmentation reconstructed images.

Khaled El-Monajjed

Working on the multiscale simulation of spinal stability with focus on the involvement of the intra-abdominal pressure.

Isabella Bozzo

Working on a parametric spine model to be leveraged to explore new theories governing spinal stability

Natasha Jacobson

Working on the medical device design of a novel tool to measure pressures of muscles adjacent to the spine

Ibrahim El-Bojairami

Working on programming muscle pressure-force relationships for accurate modelling in biomechanical simulations.

Sneha Patel

Working on the optimization of finite element method tissue deformation optimized for parallel computing

Tianqi Wang

Working on the mapping algorithm between a graphical and computational finite element mesh for augmented reality.