Ahmed Alshareef

Dr. Ahmed Alshareef is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, with research expertise in injury biomechanics, computational modeling, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and the experimental characterization of biological tissues. His work focuses on understanding how biological tissues deform under stress and how that knowledge can be applied to injury prevention, disease mitigation, and personalized medicine. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Alshareef was a scientist in the Radiology Department at the NIH Clinical Center and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied traumatic brain injury using non-invasive MRI-based methods.

He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2019, where his dissertation focused on experimental and computational investigations of brain deformation during head impact. He completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in 2014 with a concentration in biomechanics and tissue engineering. Dr. Alshareef’s current research aims to develop multi-physics finite element models of injury and disease, create biomechanical ‘digital twins’ for patient-specific simulations, and apply data-driven methods to improve predictive modeling and inform clinical and safety-related decision-making.