Fanwei Kong

Fanwei Kong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis, joining in January 2025. Her research focuses on machine learning and computational methods for personalized treatment planning of cardiovascular diseases. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley (2022) and a BS from Georgia Tech (2016).

Education:

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2022
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016

Research Interests:

• Develops digital twins of patient hearts for virtual intervention planning
• Applies computer vision and scientific ML to cardiac mechanics modeling
• Focuses on cardiovascular disease diagnosis and risk prediction

Awards:

• Collaboration Initiation Grants (2025) for interdisciplinary engineering research
• AI for Health seed funding ($300k) for AI-driven health solutions

Labs/Teams: Leads a lab (website linked) collaborating with Stanford University and industry partners like EnChannel Medical Inc. and Intuitive Surgical.