Ehsan Ban

Postdoctoral Associate, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University

My research is broadly on solid biomechanics with a focus on:

• anastomosis and shunt design in blue baby syndrome. Tearing and healing of arterial tissue in aortic dissection and other collagen-rich tissues

• structure-property relations in fibrous and electrospun polymers and grafts

• finite element and molecular dynamics computational mechanics of fibrous and heterogeneous biomaterials

• application of machine learning to biomechanical models

A selection of recent publications: (Google Scholar)

• An enhanced law of Laplace with application to aortic surgical decisions (In revision, in collaboration with the Yale Aortic Inst.) Ban et al.

• Optimization of grafts in shunt design for palliation of congenital cardiac defects. (In preparation) Ban et al.

• Critical pressure of intramural delamination in aortic dissection (2022) Ban, Cavinato, Humphrey, Ann. Biomed. Eng.

• Simulating progressive intramural damage leading to aortic dissection using an operator-regression neural network (2022) Yin, Ban, et al., J. Roy. Soc. Interface

• Differential propensity of dissection along the aorta (2021) Ban, Cavinato, Humphrey, Biomedch. Model. Mechanobiol.

• Strong triaxial coupling and anomalous Poisson effect in collagen networks (2019) Ban et al., Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA

News: I co-organized a session on tissue biomechanics at the ESCMC conference in Galway in July 22.

Before joining Yale University, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Engineering Mechanobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in collaboration with the SCOREC center. I joined RPI after undergraduate studies at the Sharif University of Technology.

Honors and awards:

• Michael A. Sadowski best master's thesis award for the thesis “Mechanics of DNA sticky end links,” 2012

• MRS travel award for the presentation "Variability of fiber elastic moduli in composite random fiber networks makes the network softer," 2015 (declined)

Service experience:

• Guest Editor for Frontiers in biomechanics on Collagen Remodeling in Health and Disease. Referee for P.N.A.S., Annals of BME, CMAME, AORTA, Soft Matter, Biophysical Journal, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, AIM Math. Bio. Eng., J. Mech. Behav. Biomater. Bio, Acta Biomater.

• mentored Zachary Varley in the undergraduate project: kinetic Monte-Carlo simulation of actin cortical network polymerization in MSCs

• instructor, NSF Center for Engineering Mechanobiology boot camp workshop, basic applications of calculus, modeling, and MATLAB in mechanobiology. Topics on MATLAB basics, statistical hypothesis testing, and Fourier image analysis of fiber orientation

• volunteer: fundraising coordinator for Wear Red Day for awareness in cardiovascular disease in women, American Heart Association. Yale postdoc association, member of mentorship committee. teaching underrepresented grade school students, Yarigaran e Sharif. tune up session for the 6th-12th grade science fair winners, School District of Philadelphia