Protik Barua is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant in Construction and Engineering Management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His doctoral research applies artificial intelligence to structural health monitoring.
He completed his M.Sc. at the University of Dhaka in the AVIS Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Md Mehedi Hasan and co-supervision of Dr. Lafifa Jamal. His thesis, Developing a Cardiovascular Digital Twin: An Inverse Analysis Approach to Personalized Circulatory Modeling, used inverse analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and simulation-driven methods. It aimed to build patient-specific cardiovascular models for analysing, predicting, and managing cardiovascular disease. Before that, Protik earned his B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from CUET.
Research interests: Digital twins, machine learning, AI-driven healthcare technology, mechatronic systems, and structural health monitoring.