Mr Yi-Han Wu

BE(Hons) - Materials and Processing Engineering

Doctoral Candidate - Doctor of Philosophy

In: Auckland Bioengineering Institute

Thesis Title: Recreating the Tissue and Cell Damage after Traumatic Brain Injury In Vitro and In Silico

Designing and constructing dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA), which are small devices that will be used to mechanically injure human brain cells to replicate traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the lab
Analysing biological changes of human brain cells after stretching them with DEAs using a myriad of biological techniques to better understand the scarring mechanism of the human brain post TBI
Once enough data is gathered from in vitro experiments they will be feed through machine learning and deep learning algorithms to replicate TBI digitally in computer models

ENGGEN131SC Graduate Teaching Assistant (2020)

ENGGEN131SC Teaching Assistant (2019)

ENGSCI211/213 Teaching Assistant (2019)

ENGGEN140 Teaching Assistant (2019)

Main Supervisor: Dr. Vickie Shim

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Samuel Rossett & Dr. Thomas Park

Advisors: Prof. Michael Dragunow

UoA Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences HealtheX Conference 3 Minute Elevator Pitch Winner 2020
University of Auckland 3 Minute Thesis Competition Doctoral Winner 2019
University of Auckland 3 Minute Thesis Competition People's Choice Award Winner 2019
Asia Pacific 3 Minute Thesis Competition Finalist 2019

Matai Research Centre Opening Day and A&P Show Volunteer 2020
Invited University of Auckland 3 Minute Thesis Finals Judge 2020
Presenter of People's Choice Award at 3 Minute Thesis Finals 2020
National Biomechanics Day Volunteer 2019
Invited Postgraduate Induction Day Student Panelist 2019 (x3)
Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI) Guest Speaker 2019
The University of Auckland Society Christmas function Guest Speaker 2019
National Biomechanics Day Volunteer 2018