Carolyna Yamamoto Alves Pinto

Carolyna Yamamoto is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering with a passion for computational medicine. She earned her B.S. from the University of South Florida, where she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Award of 2021. During her undergrad, Carolyna developed a co-ventilation device to combat the COVID-19 ventilator crisis, earning first place in multiple prestigious competitions, including the NIH DEBUT Challenge and Florida Venture Forum, and securing a patent for her invention. Currently, she is focused on developing patient-specific computational models of the atria to study atrial fibrillation. Her research strives to deepen our understanding of this complex condition and improve therapeutic approaches, with the goal of optimizing patient outcomes.

Feel free to reach out at cyamamo2@jhmi.edu!