Hi there!

I began my Ph.D. in June 2022 at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University in the Computational Cardiology Lab. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Natalia Trayanova and Professor Mauro Maggioni. My current research interests are in cardiovascular modeling, neural operators for PDEs, medical shape analysis, computational anatomy and high dimensional statistics. I am grateful to have been supported by several training grants and fellowships throughout my graduate studies including the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2024-2026).

During my undergraduate studies at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, I majored in Mathematics with minors in Chemistry and Film Production and worked on mathematical biology research under Professor Charles Peskin and Professor Charles Puelz. Prior to beginning my graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, I spent a year as a computational neuroscience researcher at Yale School of Medicine Department of Neurology under Professor Hal Blumenfeld.

Outside of research, I enjoy composing instrumental guitar music. You can find my original music on Spotify.

My partner Avisha Kumar is also a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at JHU, check out her webpage!
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Zan Ahmad

Applied Mathematics and Statistics @ JHU