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Mahdi Esmaily received his B.S. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from SUT, Tehran, Iran. During this time at SUT, he won the nationwide Best Bachelors Thesis Award and also the SUT Industrial Award, obtained two patents, published three journal papers, and received a scholarship from Iran's National Elite Foundation, among others. He then moved to Prof. Marsden's lab at UCSD as a Ph.D. student to develop computational methods for surgical design in pediatric cardiology, where he focused on improving surgical interventions for single ventricle heart patients, a population with a high mortality rate and complex physiology. During his Ph.D. studies, he proposed a novel surgical design that could potentially avoid the dangerous physiology of current surgical methods and reduce the number of open-heart surgeries. After graduating from UCSD, he continued his research at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University, working with Profs. Ali Mani and Parviz Moin as a postdoctoral scholar. In a joint effort with a large group of researchers in Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program II (PSAAP-II), he studied the effect of radiation on particle-laden turbulent flow. In January 2018, he joined the Mechanical and Aerospace faculty at Cornell University. He is the recipient of a number of awards and has published over hundred peer reviewed journal articles, reports, conference proceeding and abstracts. He has developed a parallel sparse linear solver that is currently used as a replacement for commercial packages in several academic labs and was licensed from UCSD by industrial partner Heartflow, Inc..