Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas
Originally hailing from Turkey, Orhun Davarci equally considers himself to be from Austin, TX, where he moved to during high school. He completed both his bachelor of science and master of science in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2022. During his undergraduate & graduate career, he participated in DCE-MRI research at UT’s Center for Computational Oncology, as well as mathematical modeling of COVID-19 at the Oden Institute. Following his graduation, Davarci continued conducting research at the Oden Institute to enhance his expertise in the applications of mathematical modeling and machine learning to build predictive tools for clinical applications in oncology. He held leadership positions at UT’s Engineering Honors Society and created volunteering opportunities for its members during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently, Davarci has been a co-inventor on a full patent application submitted to the USPTO for a device he designed for his team’s Biomedical Engineering capstone project. In addition, he has published an original research article as the first author, where developed a computational pipeline to integrate novel optimization methods to improve the accuracy of an epidemiological model. As part of his research work at the Center for Pediatric Cardiovascular Research at Penn State University, he also published a first-author book chapter on ECG-synchronized ECMO devices. He has presented his research numerous times at regional and international symposiums and conferences, including the Society of Mathematical Biology, and the World Conference for Computational Mechanics. Davarci’s current research interests involve driving innovation at the intersection of biomedical imaging, artificial intelligence & mathematical modeling with translational potential to impact clinical medicine.
Davarci enjoys jogging in the beautiful parks and tasting all the delicious food the city of Houston has to offer. When he is not at home playing his guitar and working on his songwriting hobby, you can usually find him searching for a decent coffee shop near the Texas Medical Center to sit down and read a book.
