Here's his dissertation:
Peer Reviewed
Title:
Coupled Cardiac Electrophysiology and Contraction using Finite Element
Author:
Sarkar, Mainak
Acceptance Date:
2013
Series:
UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Degree:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering 0330UCLA
Advisor(s):
Klug, William S
Committee:
Ennis, Daniel B, Garfinkel, Alan, Chen, Jiun-Shyan, Eldredge, Jeffrey D
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. William Klug, for all his help and support. Thank
you for being my mentor.
I am grateful to Dr. Alan Garfinkel for all the valuable inputs he has given me
related to cardiac electrophysiology. I also thank Dr. Daniel Ennis for helping me with
image processing of heart MRI data.
I would also like to thank Dr. Zhilin Qu for all the valuable discussions and inputs
regarding spiral wave formation and their stability.
I am also thankful to Dr. Jiun-Shyan Chen for all the support and appreciation for
my work.
Finally my thanks go to my friends at UCLA, Ankush Aggarwal, Mo Bai and
Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi. I will always remember all the good time we had together.
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