近期项目

1.国家自然科学基金面上项目，11672001，仿真流固耦合心脏计算模型在虚拟手术、手术方案优化及疗效预测中的应用，2017/01-2020/12，62万元，在研，主持。

2.国家自然科学基金面上项目，81571691，基于心脏超声的左心室流固耦合仿真力学模型在起搏器方案优化中的应用，2016/01-2019/12，66万元，在研，第一参与人（主持：南京医科大学，姚静）。

3.江苏省重点研发计划项目，BE2016785，冠心病临界病变的规范化诊疗。2016.7-2019.6. 195万元，东南大学配套200万元，负责内容：第一参与人，负责数学模型。（主持人，马根山，中大医院心内科主任）。

4.美国NIH/NHLBI, R01 HL089269,3D MRI-Based Modeling for Computer-Aided Right Ventricle Remodeling Surgery,06/01/2009-05/31/2016, $2,070,684, Multiple PI: Pedro del Nido, Tal Geva (Harvard Medical School); Dalin Tang, WPI.已结题，并列主持.

5.美国 NIH/NIBIB,2R01EB004759, In Vivo IVUS Image-Based Modeling for Human Coronary Plaque Assessment 09/2004-11/30/2015， $2,483,120,已结题，主持。

6.美国 NSF/NIH-NIGMS DMS-0540684， Multi-Physics Modeling and Meshless Methods for Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression (03/15/06-02/28/12)$1,847,537.已结题，主持。

7. 美国Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)(07/01/05-07/31/06)， Image-Based Computational Mechanical Analysis and Indexing for Cardiovascular Diseases，Amount:$5,000 awarded （专利技术市场调研）.已结题，主持。

8. 美国凯乐琳发明奖，Kalenian Award, 专利产业化奖，Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2008 (6/2008-12/2009). Image-Based Computational Mechanical Analysis and Indexing for Cardiovascular Diseases, From Invention to Commercialization，Amount:$25000 + $5000 Legal Services, Awarded.已结题，主持。

荣誉（Honors, Awards, and Recognition ）

1982:First Place in the National Graduate Entrance Exam to the Applied Math

Graduate Program at NIT, Received $50,000 Scholarship to study in US.

1993:WPI President MQP Advisor Award.

2003-2006:John E. Sinclair Professor of Mathematics, WPI.

2003:Featured article by Association of Eradication of Heart Attack , Liu SQ,

Tang D, Tieche C, and Alkema P, “Pattern formation of vascular smooth

muscle cells subject to nonuniform fluid shear stress,”Am. J. Physio. Heart Circ Physiol,285(3):H1072-80, PMID: 12730056, 2003.

2004:First NIH R01 award received.

2005:Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) Award.

2006:Best Paper Selection, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Year Book 2006:Tang, Yang, Zheng, Woodard, Sicard, Saffitz, and Yuan, 3D MRI-Based Multi-Component FSI Models for Atherosclerotic Plaques, a 3-D FSI model, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 32(7): 947-960, 2004.

2006:Invited paper for an authoritative Encyclopedia:Modeling Flow in Healthy and Stenosed Arteries, Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering,

2007:Best paper award, 2007 IEEE/ICMEInternational Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, Dalin Tang, Chun Yang, Tal Geva, Pedro J. del Nido, Patient-Specific Virtual Surgery for Right Ventricle Volume Reduction and Patch Design Using MRI-Based 3D FSI RV/LV/Patch Models, pp. 158-163,2007.

2007:Honorable Mentioning,Sayan Mondel, Chun Yang, Joseph D. Petruccelli, Chun Yuan, Fei Liu, Tom Hatsukami, Dalin Tang, A New Hypothesis for Human Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression Based on Serial In Vivo MRI and Computational Modeling Method, Proceedings of the ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference, ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference UndergraduateStudent paper competition

2007:WPI 2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Student: Sayan Mondal; Advisor: Dalin Tang

Computational modeling and methods for diseased arteries

2007:Research presentation to United States Congress representatives on Capitol Hill at the annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) exhibition, representingAmerican Mathematical Society.

2008:Featured article of the month (Feb 2008) by the Society for Heart Attack

Prevention and Eradication, Tang, Yang, Mondal, Liu, Canton, Hatsukami,Yuan, A Negative Correlation between Human Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Progression and Plaque Wall Stress: In Vivo MRI-Based 2D/3D FSI Models, J. Biomechanics,Vol 41/4 pp 727-736.

2008:Two invited presentations at NIH-sponsored NHLBI-VCU Workshop for

MDs, physicians, and engineers on Computational Cardiovascular and

Cardiopulmonary Dynamics, (1) MRI-based Atherosclerotic Plaques

Assessment and Rupture Predictions;(2) Patient-Specific RV/LV/Patch

Models for Ventricle Surgery Optimization,Feb., 2008.

2008:Kalenian Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2008.

2009:Second NIH R01 award received.MRI-Based Ventricle modeling.

2010:Third NIH R01 award received.

IVUS-Based Modeling for coronary plaque

2009:Featured article by MDLinx.com, Tang et al., Sites of Rupture in Human Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaques are Associated with High Structural Stresses: an In Vivo MRI-Based 3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Study,AHA Journal, Stroke. 2009.;40;3258-3263.

2010:NIH/NIBIB Website Featuring our research: E- Advance - Modeling Mechanical Stress in Vulnerable Plaques to Reduce Strokes, http://www.nibib.nih.gov/HealthEdu/eAdvances/26Feb10.

2010:WPI Trustee’s award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship

http://www.wpi.edu/news/20090/convocation2010.html

2011: Elected Fellow, American Heart Association

2013:Featured Article on ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

2014:ASME Certificate of Appreciation of Outstanding Service to Journal of

Biomechanical Engineering as an Associate Editor,

2015:Elected Fellow, ICCES.

2016:Elected Fellow, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

2016:Member, US National Academy of Inventers.

2017: Best Paper award, International Conference of Computational Methods, Xiaoya Guo, Dalin Tang, David Molony, Chun Yang, Habib Samady, Jie Zheng, Gary S. Mintz, Akiko Maehara, Liang Wang, Xuan Pei, Zhi-Yong Li, Genshan Ma, Don P. Giddens, A machine learning-based method for intracoronary OCT segmentation andvulnerable coronary plaque cap thickness quantification, July 2017.

2018:Highlighted Article on Journal of Biomechanics, Feb 2018: Liang Wang, Dalin Tang*, Akiko Maehara, Zheyang Wu, Chun Yang, David Muccigrosso, Jie Zheng, Richard Bach, Kristen L. Billiar, Gary S. Mintz, Fluid-Structure Interaction Models Based on Patient-Specific IVUS at Baseline and Follow-Up for Prediction of Coronary Plaque Progression by Morphological and Biomechanical Factors: A Preliminary Study. 2018 Feb 8;68:43-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.12.007. Epub 2017 Dec 15.

Publications(Selected from over 300 journal and conference papers)

1. Dalin Tang and M. C. Shen, “Peristaltic Transport of a Heat-Conducting Fluid Subject to Newton's Cooling Law at the Boundary,” Int. J. Eng. Scien., Vol. 27, No.7, pp. 809-825, 1989.