Charles Taylor Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dr. Charles Taylor completed his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987, his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer in 1991 and his M.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer in 1992. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1996. Dr. Taylor's research interests center upon the application of theoretical and computational mechanics to the study of cardiovascular function,adaptation and disease. Taylor's research focuses upon: (1) the characterization of hemodynamic (blood flow) factors in cardiovascular adaptation and disease, (2) the development of computer-aided engineering tools for the design of cardiovascular devices and (3) the development of software tools for Computer Aided Surgical Planning. He teaches a graduate course each year in the School of Engineering at Stanford entitled "ME284 - Cardiovascular Biomechanics". This course examines models of the circulation ranging from lumped parameter models to wave propagation models to finite element methods. Dr. Taylor also teaches a graduate course alternate years entitled "ME232 -Simulation Based Design and Computational Prototyping Systems". The emphasis of ME232 is on developing complete software design and analysis systems for use in prototyping industrial and biomedical devices on the computer.