• B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 2013
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2019

Journal Articles

Jibin Joy Kolliyil, Nikhil Shirdade and Melissa Brindise, 2024, "Investigating intermittent behaviors in transitional flows using a novel time–frequency-based method", Experiments in Fluids, 65, (123)

Ruhi Shamin, Melissa Brindise, Jibin Joy Kolliyil, Brett Meyers, Jiacheng Zhang and Pavlos Vlachos, 2024, "An interpretable feature approach for automated atrial fibrillation detection in ECGs", Computers in Medicine and Biology, 179, pp. 108872

Baha Elkhader and Melissa Brindise, 2024, "Effect of the Womersley number on transition to turbulence in pipe flow: An experimental study", Physics of Fluids, 36, (6), pp. 064109

Sandy Karam, Nikhil Shirdade, Benjamin Madden, Justin Rheinstadter, Ephraim Church, Melissa Brindise and Guha Manogharan, 2023, "Additive manufacturing of patient-specific high-fidelity and thickness-controlled cerebral aneurysm geometries", Manufacturing Letters, 35, pp. 770-777

Melissa Brindise, Keving Buno, Luis Solorio and Pavlos Vlachos, 2023, "Automated layer identification for skin tissue histology images", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 51, (2), pp. 443-455

Jiacheng Zhang, Sean Rothenberger, Melissa Brindise, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz and Pavlos Vlachos, 2022, "Wall shear stress estimation for 4D Flow MRI using Navier-Stokes equation correction", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, pp. 1-16

Brett Meyers, Melissa Brindise, Shelby Kutty and Pavlos Vlachos, 2022, "A method of direct estimation of left ventricular global longitudinal strain rate from echocardiograms", Scientific Reports, 12, (1), pp. 1-11

Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz and Pavlos Vlachos, 2022, "A multi-modality approach for enhancing 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging via sparse representation", Royal Society Interface, 19, (186), pp. 202110751

Melissa Brindise, Brett Meyers, Shelby Kutty and Pavlos Vlachos, 2021, "Automated peak prominence-based iterative Dijkstras algorithm for segmentation of B-mode echocardiograms", IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, 69, (5), pp. 1595-1607

Jiacheng Zhang, Sean M. Rothenberger, Melissa Brindise, M. B. Scott, H. Berhane, J. J. Baraboo, Michael Markl, V. L. Rayz and Pavlos P. Vlachos, 2021, "Divergence-free constrained phase unwrapping and denoising for 4D flow MRI using weighted least squares", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40, (12), pp. 3389-3399

Melissa Brindise, Brett A. Meyers and Pavlos Vlachos, 2020, "Universality of vortex ring decay in the left ventricle", Journal of Biomechanics, 103, pp. 109695

Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, S. Schnell, M. Markl, D. Saloner, V. L. Rayz and Pavlos P. Vlachos, 2019, "4D Flow MRI pressure estimation using velocity measurement-error based weighted least-squares", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 39, (5), pp. 1668-1680

Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, B. Dickerhoff, S. Schnell, M. Markl, D. Saloner, V. L. Rayz and Pavlos P. Vlachos, 2019, "Multi-modality cerebral aneurysm haemodynamic analysis: in vivo 4D Flow MRI, in vitro particle velocimetry, and in silico computational fluid dynamics", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16, (158), pp. 20190465

Melissa Brindise, Margaret Busse and Pavlos Vlachos, 2018, "Density- and viscosity-matched Newtonian and non-Newtonian blood-analog solutions with PDMS refractive index", Experiments in Fluids, 59, (11), pp. 1-8

Melissa Brindise and Pavlos Vlachos, 2018, "Pulsatile pipe flow transition: Flow waveform effects", Physics in Fluids, 30, (1), pp. 015111

Melissa Brindise and Pavlos Vlachos, 2017, "Proper orthogonal decomposition truncation method for data denoising and order reduction", Experiments in Fluids, 58, (4), pp. 1-18

Melissa Brindise, Claudio Chiastra, Francesco Burzotta, Francesco Migliavacca and Pavlos Vlachos, 2017, "Hemodynamics of stent implantation procedures in coronary bifurcations: An in vitro study", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 45, (3), pp. 542-553

Nikhil Shirdade, Jibin Joy Kolliyil, Baha Al-Deen T. El-Khader and Melissa Brindise, , "Characterizing the onset of transitional and turbulent flow regimes in pipe flows using instantaneous time-frequency-based analysis", Physics of Fluids

• February 2024 - January 2027, "Characterizing Transition to Turbulence in Pulsatile Pipe Flow," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• April 2022 - March 2025, "Evaluating the effect of transient inflow waveforms in cerebral aneurysms," (Sponsor: American Heart Association).

Service to Penn State:

• Assistance to Student Organizations, Faculty Advisor, Faculty Advisor for PSUCC, Pennsylvania State University Club Crew, June 2024

Service to External Organizations:

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, APS-DFD Education and Career Outreach Committee, APS-DFD, January 2024 - December 2027

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Conference Organizing Committee Diversity Chair, Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport, and Bioengineering Conference, February 2024 - June 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, BMES Diversity Committee, Biomedical Engineering Society, July 2024

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, ASME DEI Committee Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, August 2024