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Wensi Wu Uses Digital Twins to Explore the Hidden Mechanics of the Human Heart

News / June 25, 2025

When Wensi Wu, Research Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), first stepped into the world of computational modeling, she wasn’t thinking about hearts or hospitals. She was thinking about ships. “I’ve always been fascinated by how powerful technologies can model what really happens in the world,” she says....

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New MEAM Faculty Member Wensi Wu Brings Innovation to Cardiovascular Research

News / January 9, 2025

We extend a warm welcome to Wensi Wu, who joins the MEAM faculty as Assistant Research Professor. Wensi’s research sits at the convergence of applied mechanics, scientific machine learning, and medicine, where she develops predictive virtual models of the heart, grounded in the in vivo principles of tissue mechanics, to tackle...

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