Auckland Bioengineering Institute UoA

Congratulations to Mehran Akbarpour Ghazani, who successfully defended his PhD thesis recently. His thesis was titled The Automated Construction and Verification of Physically Plausible Models of Physiological Systems.

Mehran's work explored the use of bond graph modelling in biology and physiology and how to leverage bond graph concepts in the verification of systems biology models encoded in SBML or CellML. The examiner was very impressed with Mehran's work, and they had some great discussion on how Mehran's work might help with the verification and clinical translation of their own data-driven machine learning models.

Mehran will start working with Aroa Biosurgery. Congratulations, Mehran!