Fanwei Kong
Assistant Professor In Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolFanwei Kong is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and computational biomechanics researcher with eight years of experience building patient-specific heart models to enable personalized virtual intervention planning. Trained at UC Berkeley (PhD) and Georgia Tech (BS, highest honors), she develops algorithms and open-source software that turn medical images into detailed cardiac simulations integrating machine learning and clinical data. Her work bridges academia and industry through postdoctoral research at Stanford and internships at Intuitive, emphasizing scalable, clinically actionable pipelines rather than isolated proofs of concept. Based in Palo Alto, she combines deep mechanics expertise with practical software engineering—contributing to projects like SimVascular during her graduate work—to shorten the path from image to prediction for cardiovascular treatment.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Biomedical Engineering, Highest honor, BS, Biomedical Engineering, Highest honor at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Beijing No.4 High School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (21)
simulation10
image-data10
segmentation10
medical10
python9
machine-learning9
pipeline9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
neural-network8
data-science8
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
latex3
sparse3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fkong7/HeartFFDNet
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
fkong7/MeshDeformNet
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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