Michael Barbour
Senior Scientist at Seattle Children's
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Barbour is a senior scientist and engineer with 11 years of experience applying computational fluid dynamics, experimental flow systems, and optical image analysis to healthcare problems, particularly pediatric and airway physiology. He builds patient-specific CFD pipelines from 4DCT and couples them with 3D printing and virtual surgery to predict and quantify surgical relief, and has translated similar modeling into low-resource product design such as low-emission biomass cookstoves. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, he blends reduced-order modeling and high-fidelity simulation to cut compute time while preserving clinical accuracy. At Seattle Children’s and UW he has moved methods from simulation to bench validation using custom flow-loops and optical measurement systems, demonstrating a knack for closing the loop between computation, experiment, and real-world impact. Less obvious: he frequently merges biomedical priorities with product-driven thinking—optimizing for deployable solutions across both hospital and global-health contexts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering Mathematics at University of Vermont
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
geometry9
intrinsics9
sem9
stereo9
homography9
structure-from-motion9
computer-vision9
spectral8
colmap8
database6
wcf6
entity-framework6
tdd6
visual-studio6
rest6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mc-barbour/biLinear_porous_media
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
mc-barbour/4dct_cfd
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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