Ritika Menghani
Postdoctoral Researcher at Rice University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRitika Menghani is a computational biomechanics researcher and R&D scientist with eight years of experience translating high-fidelity simulations into clinically impactful tools. With a PhD from Penn State and a postdoc at Rice, she has led cross-institutional projects with MD Anderson and UT Health, developing finite element models, cloud-based digital twins, and real-time brain injury simulations used across 2,000+ athletic impacts. Her work spans medical device design and decision-support systems—most notably a pelvic graft planning tool and an efficient bi-stable drug delivery mechanism—demonstrating a rare combination of clinical collaboration and mechanical innovation. Comfortable bridging surgeons, data scientists, and product teams, she focuses on embedding simulation into design and verification lifecycles to accelerate safe, scalable patient care improvements. An interesting non-obvious detail: she built the first individualized Brain Simulation Research Platform during her PhD, enabling personalized injury metric prediction from head kinematics.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 3.97, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 3.97 at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 8.98, Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 8.98 at Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute
Github Skills (9)
modeling9
computational-science8
scientific-computing7
mojo5
python3
neuroscience3
ruby3
bioinformatics2
vtk2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PSUCompBio/rbf-brain
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Additional Files for the RBF code
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 6 months
rbfrubyadditional
PSUCompBio/brain-meshing
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
scripts for meshing the brain
Contributions:9 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 5 months
brainneurosciencepythonmojomeshing
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