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Category: Computational X

Building AI to Transform Health Care: Meet Gianfranco Doretto, SCI’s First Joint Hire with the School of Medicine

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As health-care costs soar, the global population ages, and patient needs grow more complex, biomedical informatics professor Gianfranco Doretto sees artificial intelligence as a powerful solution. His vision: create AI-driven tools that improve outcomes and make care more affordable. Last summer, Doretto joined the University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as its […]

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February 20, 2026

Arzani Receives ASME 2026 Y.C. Fung Early Career Award

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Amir Arzani, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as the 2026 Y.C. Fung Early Career Award Medalist from ASME. Arzani’s work was recognized “for pioneering scientific machine learning research in cardiovascular biomechanics, development of the innovative concept of wall shear stress topology in blood flow characterization, and development and dissemination of open-source educational […]

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December 18, 2025

Karli Gillette and Utah colleagues receive grant to advance cardiac digital twin technologies

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Dr. Karli Gillette, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering along with University of Utah Faculty, Dr. Akil Narayan and Dr. Ravi Ranjan, received a half a million dollar grant to be utilized over the next three years. The grant will go towards enhancing Digital twin technologies. Digital twin (DT) technologies are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of […]

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December 10, 2025

Guang Tian, SCI’s First Urban Planning Faculty Member, Envisions Utah as a National Model for Smart Growth

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For Guang Tian, a new assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, getting stuck in traffic has a silver lining: it might inspire his next project. As SCI’s first faculty member from the City and Metropolitan Planning Department, Tian is pioneering research that blends advanced technology with urban design […]

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November 6, 2025

Malaria parasites are full of wildly spinning iron crystals. Scientists finally know why

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Reposted from @theU. The following Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute members contributed to this research article: SCI faculty member Tamara Bidone, assistant professor of biomedical engineering; co-first author Tomasz Skóra, a former postdoctoral research associate in Bidone’s lab and current assistant professor in physics at the University of Warsaw; and former SCI software engineer Keith Carney, […]

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November 4, 2025

The U to build an AI ecosystem in partnership with tech powerhouses

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The University of Utah is looking to join forces with two powerhouse tech firms to accelerate research and discovery using artificial intelligence (AI). The agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and AI chipmaker NVIDIA will amplify the university’s capacity for understanding cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, mental health, and genetics. The initiative is projected to enable medical […]

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September 11, 2025

Engineers’ AI Project Will Help Predict Natural Disasters’ Chaotic Flows

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Thanks to a new National Science Foundation grant, researchers at the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering will collaborate with teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University on a new project at the intersection of artificial intelligence and geoscience. Natural disasters — from avalanches, to earthquakes, to volcanic eruptions — are […]

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August 21, 2025

Four Scholars with SCI Ties Named Finalists in Bioengineering Student Paper Competition

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Three Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute students under faculty member Jeffrey A. Weiss were selected as finalists in the student paper competition at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference, and a fourth finalist is a recently defended Ph.D. graduate under affiliate faculty member Lucas Timmins. The four biomedical engineering students were […]

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July 17, 2025

SCI’s Bidone Helps Lead $8.5M Leducq Network for Vascular Breakthroughs

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Tamara Bidone, a faculty member in the University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is part of an international team of researchers awarded $8.5 million to develop treatments for peripheral artery disease (PAD)—a common and potentially fatal condition where not enough blood flows to the limbs. […]

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June 20, 2025

New Faculty Member Karli Gillette Returns ‘Home’ to SCI to Develop Cardiac Digital Twins

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After earning two of her three degrees at the University of Utah, native Salt Laker Karli Gillette returned in summer 2024 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. Read how her personal experiences—including a mild heart condition diagnosis at age 16—led […]

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May 7, 2025