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Biography

Alain Kassab is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who serves as the biomedical engineering program coordinator. For his contributions to computational methods in cardiovascular modeling, Kassab has helped bring international recognition to UCF through research, collaborations, and enhancement of the mechanical and aerospace engineering curriculum. Kassab’s research spans several disciplines, including computational methods in heat transfer and fluid flow, inverse problems, boundary element, meshless methods and in bioengineering, producing more than 300 scientific papers and two books. His research has been supported by NASA, the U.S. Department of Education, the American Heart Association, Orlando Health, Siemens, the U.S. National Science Foundation and more.

 

Association Fellow
American Society of Mechanical Engineering, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
College
College of Engineering and Computer Science

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