Shaneil Lysight

Shaneil is a junior in Engineering with an Electrical Power concentration. She is working with Dr. Kim and Dr. Tanaka to develop a better understanding of blood flow in people with sickle cell disease (SCD).  People with sickle cell anemia have abnormal hemoglobin that tends to clump causing red blood cells to adopt a sickle shape and become stiffer. Because almost half of blood is cells (45%), this has a large impact on fluid flow. Shaneil is researching the characteristics of the disease and developing CAD models for normal and sickle shaped red blood cells to support computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research being performed by Dr. Kim.