Cardiac Digital Twins with Dr. Karli Gillette

Dr. Karli Gillette, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering will be our speaker for our October meeting.  She has recently been awarded a grant to enhance Digital twin technologies. Dr. Gillette has her B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Utah and her PhD from the Medical University of Graz in Austria and currently is part of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah.

Digital twin (DT) technologies are rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern engineering. From aerospace to manufacturing to healthcare, DTs offer a powerful way to simulate, monitor, and optimize complex systems by creating virtual replicas that evolve in real time with data. But as these systems grow in sophistication, so do the mathematical challenges behind them. At the heart of every digital twin lies a delicate balance between computational models and real-world data. Generating accurate models, calibrating them with noisy or incomplete data, and quantifying uncertainty are all tasks that demand advanced mathematical and statistical tools. While recent engineering advances have made DTs more accessible, the mathematical infrastructure needed to support them—especially in high-stakes applications like medicine—is still catching up.  Come find out about this technology and how it is being used to create cardiac digital twins.

We will be meeting at the John and Marcia College of Engineering Warnock Building in the Eccles Boardroom.  This is a luncheon event so please register and choose your lunch.