Dr Sina Saffaran
Dr Sina Saffaran
Assistant Professor
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
sina dot saffaran dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk
Biography
Sina is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow. He has broad expertise in developing and applying high-fidelity computer simulations of patients with acute lung injury and using high-performance computing platforms to implement parallelised global optimisation algorithms for matching computational simulators to individual patient data. In 2020, he obtained a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Warwick, and was awarded Warwick’s Science Faculty Thesis Prize. From 2020 to 2022, he was a Research Fellow at University College London's CHIMERA (Collaborative Healthcare Innovation through Mathematics, Engineering and AI) centre, where he worked on understanding how patient’s physiology changes during ill health and recovery through mathematical modelling. In 2022, he was awarded a 5-year Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of EngineeringLink opens in a new window, primarily focused on automating and individualising mechanical ventilation of critically ill patients.
Education
2020 - PhD Biomedical Engineering, University of Warwick, UK
2015 - MSc Advanced Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
2013 - BSc Electrical Engineering – Control, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
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Research Interests
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Systems Medicine
- Computer simulation for cardiopulmonary modelling
- Personalised simulation and control technologies for the Intensive Care Unit
- Mechanical ventilation of critically ill patients
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Pulmonary and cardiovascular pathophysiology
Teaching Interests
- ES4G4: Nonlinear Control and Reinforcement Learning (New module, coming soon!)
- ES4F0: Advanced Control Systems
- ES2C1: Introduction to Biomedical and Clinical Engineering
- ES327: BEng Final Project Supervision