Danial Shahmirzadi, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)

Email: ds3031 [at] columbia [dot] edu
Phone: +1 212 342 1611
Office: PS19-405 (for address and directions, see the contact page)

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (College Park, MD, USA), 2010
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA), 2005
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran (Tehran, Iran), 2002

Biography

Danial started his education by qualifying to attend the National Organization for Developing Exceptional Talents (NODET; Tehran, Iran) for his guidance and secondary schools from 1990 to 1997, and has pursued his professional academic training in mechanical engineering. Danial's former research background was in biologically-inspired intelligent and control systems, and has been shifted to his present field of cardiovascular biomechanics and diagnosis since joining the Orthopaedic Mechanobiology Lab (OrthoMechLab) to start his PhD. Meanwhile, he has also been involved in industrial projects at different companies such as IKCO (Tehran, Iran) in 2000, the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM; Tehran, Iran) in 2001-2002, and Medrad Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) in 2006. He has been a visiting researcher at the Molecular Cell Biomechanics Lab (MCBL) at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) in 2008-2010, before joining the UEIL as a postdoctoral research scientist in November 2010, working on the Pulse Wave Imaging (PWI) and Harmonic Motion Imaging (HMI) projects. He has been an invited reviewer for journals such as Computational Acoustics, Experimental Mechanics, Biomedical Materials Research, BioMedical Engineering OnLine, and is an editorial board member for the Open Journal of Applied Sciences.

Awards and Prizes

• Cover Page Featured Research Results (ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering), November 2012
• Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship (Graduate School, University of Maryland), September to December 2009
• George R. Irwin Centennial Travel Award (George R. Irwin Research Committee on Experimental and Fracture Mechanics), July 2009
• Annual Graduate Student Certificate of Excellence (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland), May 2008 and May 2009
• Lilly-East Conference Travel Grant (Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland), April 2009
• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Certificate (Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland), June 2008
• Future Faculty Fellowship (The Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland), January 2008 to April 2010

Publications

To obtain a bibliography of all of Dr. Shahmirzadi's publications, click here to download the complete list (in BibTeX format).

Journal Articles

	Pulse Wave Imaging (PWI) in normal, hypertensive and aneurysmal human aortas in vivo: a feasibility study Ronny X. Li, Jianwen Luo, Sandhya K. Balaram, Farooq A. Chaudhry, Danial Shahmirzadi, Elisa E. Konofagou Physics in Medicine and Biology (in press) Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Mapping the longitudinal wall stiffness heterogeneities within intact canine aortas using Pulse Wave Imaging (PWI) ex vivo Danial Shahmirzadi, Prathyush Narayanan, Ronny X. Li, William W. Qaqish, Elisa E. Konofagou Journal of Biomechanics (in press) Digital Object Identifier: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.04.019 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Pulse-wave propagation in straight-geometry vessels for stiffness estimation: theory, simulations, phantoms and in vitro findings Danial Shahmirzadi, Ronny X. Li, Elisa E. Konofagou Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Volume 134, Number 11, Pages 1145021-1145026, November 2012 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1115/1.4007747 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Detection of aortic wall inclusions using regional pulse wave propagation and velocity in silico Danial Shahmirzadi, Elisa E. Konofagou Artery Research, Volume 6, Number 3, Pages 114-123, September 2012 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1016/j.artres.2012.05.004 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)

Conference Papers and Presentations

	A Viscoelastic Property Study in Canine Liver Before and After HIFU Ablation In Vitro Danial Shahmirzadi, Jiangang Chen, Yi Hou, Elisa E. Konofagou 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Osaka, Japan), July 3 to 7, 2013 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Potential strong-HIFU-ablation-induced tissue damage as measured by viscoelastic characterization of canine liver tissue post-ablation Danial Shahmirzadi, Yi Hou, Elisa E. Konofagou American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine Annual Convention (New York, NY, USA), April 6 to 10, 2013 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Viscoelastic mechanical properties of the canine liver before and after focused ultrasound-induced thermal ablation in vitro Danial Shahmirzadi, Yi Hou, Elisa E. Konofagou Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA, USA), October 24 to 27, 2012 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Arterial wall stiffness variations along the canine aorta using pulse wave imaging with validation in vitro Danial Shahmirzadi, Ronny X. Li, William W. Qaqish, Elisa E. Konofagou Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA, USA), October 24 to 27, 2012 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Multi-parametric monitoring of viscoelastic property changes during HIFU ablation of canine liver ex vivo using HMIFU with preliminary validation Yi Hou, Danial Shahmirzadi, Fabrice Marquet, Elisa E. Konofagou IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (Dresden, Germany), October 7 to 10, 2012 Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Viscoelasticity parameters of HIFU ablated canine liver tissues ex vivo Danial Shahmirzadi, Yi Hou, Elisa E. Konofagou 11th International Tissue Elasticity Conference (Deauville, France), October 2 to 5, 2012 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Performance assessment and optimization of pulse wave imaging for pulse wave analysis in ex vivo canine aortas and in vivo normal human aortas Ronny X. Li, William W. Qaqish, Danial Shahmirzadi, Elisa E. Konofagou 11th International Tissue Elasticity Conference (Deauville, France), October 2 to 5, 2012 Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Multi-parametric monitoring of viscoelastic property changes during HIFU treatment using HMIFU ex vivo Yi Hou, Danial Shahmirzadi, Fabrice Marquet, Elisa E. Konofagou 11th International Tissue Elasticity Conference (Deauville, France), October 2 to 5, 2012 Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Effects of the wall inclusion size and modulus contrast on the regional pulse wave propagation along the arterial wall in silico Danial Shahmirzadi, Elisa E. Konofagou 11th International Tissue Elasticity Conference (Deauville, France), October 2 to 5, 2012 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Performance assessment and optimization of Pulse Wave Imaging (PWI) and its applications for pulse wave analysis in ex vivo canine aortas and in vivo normal human arteries Ronny X. Li, Danial Shahmirzadi, William W. Qaqish, Elisa E. Konofagou 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (San Diego, CA, USA), August 28 to September 1, 2012 Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Simulated pulse wave imaging for local stiffness estimation of patient-specific aorta Danial Shahmirzadi, Ronny X. Li, Jianwen Luo, Elisa E. Konofagou 10th International Tissue Elasticity Conference (Arlington, TX, USA), October 12 to 15, 2011 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	Aortic stiffness estimation via pulse wave imaging in patient-specific simulated and silicone phantom Danial Shahmirzadi, Ronny X. Li, Elisa E. Konofagou Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (Hartford, CT, USA), October 12 to 15, 2011 Download Full Text (PDF) | Download Citation (BibTeX)
	In-vivo application of pulse wave imaging for arterial stiffness measurement under normal and pathological conditions Ronny X. Li, Jianwen Luo, Sandhya K. Balaram, Farooq A. Chaudhry, J. C. Lantis, Danial Shahmirzadi, Elisa E. Konofagou 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Boston, MA, USA), August 30 to September 3, 2011 Download Citation (BibTeX)