Francisco Sahli

Position
Assistant Professor
Academic unit
  • Department of Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering, School of Engineering UC
Lines of Research
  • Mathematical modeling of biological systems
  • Machine learning for computational models
  • Data assimilation in complex models
Research Areas
Summary

Francisco Sahli obtained his degree in Mechanical Civil Engineering and Master in Engineering Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2011. Upon graduation he was awarded the Mario Hiriart, Ismael Valdés Valdés Valdés and also the prize for the best thesis of the mechanical engineering department.

In 2014 he obtained a Fulbright-CONICYT scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in the United States. In 2018 he obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. After a postdoctoral stay at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, since 2019 he has been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering and the Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering at the same university.

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  • Civil Mechanical Engineer and Master in Engineering Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2011.
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, United States, 2018.

PerMed - ANID Era (2022-2025). "Digital Twins to Treat Atrial Fibrillation''. In collaboration with
research groups in France and Austria.

Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (2022 - 2032): Principal Investigator.
National Center for Artifical Intelligence (2023 - 2032). Associate researcher.

Fondecyt Iniciación (2022 - 2025). "Physics-informed neural networks for cardiac strain estimation
from cine MRI''.