David Gunderman received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado – Boulder. He is working with co-advisors Dr. Hector Gomez, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Craig Goergen, the Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the research of software framework for numerical algorithms for the high-order immersed boundary method in cardiovascular simulation. Dr. Gunderman's research expertise lies in computational science, high-performance computing, numerical methods for partial differential equations, and computational geometry.