Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 2025
  • M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 2023
  • B.E., Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 2021
Professional Honors
  • Stony Brook University Provost’s Award for Academic Excellence
Professional Affiliations
  • 2024 – Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

Dr. Baylous specializes in cardiovascular biomechanics, product design and optimization, including performance testing and fatigue/failure analysis. His formal training in biomedical engineering includes optimizing transcatheter heart valves through in silico and in vitro modeling techniques for novel device evaluation, design optimization, and mitigation of clinical complications. He is an expert in patient-specific modeling and developing novel in silico frameworks to analyze durability of stents and transcatheter heart valves, studying thromboembolic complications and material property characterization of tissues. With expertise in digital twin modeling, data processing, and visualization, he is well-equipped to support clients in the development of next-generation medical technologies, enhancing healthcare solutions and improving patient outcomes.

Structural Analysis and Material Characterization

Dr. Baylous has extensive experience in finite element analysis (FEA) to model nitinol stent crimping and deployment and patient-specific transcatheter valve replacements. Dr. Baylous has utilized advanced beating heart models to track stent deployment, eccentricity and strains throughout multiple cardiac cycles for device durability assessments. He has utilized in silico durability approaches to assess medical devices using standards such as ISO 5840. In addition, Dr. Baylous also helped perform accelerated benchtop durability testing of prosthetic valve leaflets. He has also utilized inverse FEA methods for material property characterization of calcified aortic valve tissue, performing a first-of-its-kind study to demonstrate how calcium deposits can be modeled as crushable foams, more accurately capturing their structure and behavior while being validated with in vitro data. 

Flow Analysis and Hemodynamics

Dr. Baylous has extensive experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) to assess complex products such as heart valves. Dr. Baylous has performed design optimization of transcatheter valves to maximize orifice areas and reduce peak stresses during the cardiac cycles. He has developed in silico workflows to assess thrombosis risk due to platelet activation in patient-specific models. Dr. Baylous has simulated clinical performance and hemodynamics of deployed transcatheter valves, also performing validation studies with pulse duplicator systems.

Novel Device Design and Testing

Dr. Baylous has extensive experience developing and performing feasibility analysis of novel transcatheter valve devices — especially those with polymer valve leaflets. He has developed one of the first known polymeric transcatheter devices dedicated for patients with bicuspid aortic valves (BAV) using computational modeling and optimization to improve fatigue resistance and hemodynamic performance in these patients. 

Experience Prior to Joining Exponent

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Baylous worked as a research and development engineer for a startup company where he contributed to product design and development of a second generation polymeric transcatheter aortic valve. He manufactured prototype valves via transfer molding while also designing and prototyping a delivery system for acute ovine trials. Dr. Baylous also worked as a sponsored intern through the Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) at Stony Brook University, where he performed consulting for polymeric valve projects and researched the clinical complications associated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with BAV disease. In this role, he also supervised projects related to AI-driven patient model reconstruction and meshing for in silico modeling to streamline patient-specific mesh model generation - overcoming the major time bottleneck between segmentation from cardiac CT scans and generating a usable patient mesh. Dr. Baylous worked as a research assistant in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University and was granted the Applied Research & Development Project (ARaD) Award from the Center for Biotechnology. Dr. Baylous also served as a teaching assistant during his graduate studies, supervising and mentoring biomedical engineering students.