Charles A. Taylor, Ph.D. is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Member of the Board of Directors of HeartFlow. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Surgery at Stanford University with courtesy faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Radiology. He is also currently a Consulting Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University and a Part-time Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in combining computer simulation methods with medical imaging data for patient-specific modeling of blood flow to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Taylor has published over 350 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and has over 220 issued or pending patents worldwide.
He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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