PhD Student
Vanderbilt University
Jingyi Zhu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, advised by Brett Byram, Ph.D. Jingyi’s research focuses on analyzing umbilical blood-flow signals to extract quantitative biomarkers for early prediction of placental dysfunction, including preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM), and fetal vascular malperfusion (FVM). Jingyi is also interested in developing multiscale hemodynamic models (0D, 1D, and 3D) of the umbilical cord and placenta to investigate flow dynamics and link physiological mechanisms to measurable clinical biomarkers and disease phenotypes.