Miss Laila Fadhillah Binti Ulta Delestri

SMSRG

Miss Laila Fadhillah is a postgraduate research student within the Engineering and Environment department at the University of Southampton Malaysia (UoSM). Before coming to UoSM, she graduated with a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Technology Malaysia, achieving a Dean's List award in 2020. Prior to that, she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the same university in 2018. In September 2021, she received a full PhD studentship offer from UoSM and accepted it without hesitation, as she was seeking this opportunity to continue her passion for her research field.

Additionally, the program provides postgraduate students the opportunity to spend one year at the main campus of the University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK. Her Master's degree focused on using computational simulations to study bioheat transfer in the breast, evaluating the potential use of a safer modality, thermography, as an adjunct tool to mammography. This project sparked her interest in pursuing a PhD to delve deeper into the use of simulation and mathematical modeling for the investigation of other health conditions in biomedical applications. As coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death in Malaysia and many other countries, her research shifted from focusing on breast cancer to cardiac disease, while retaining computational modeling as the core method. She is also a member of the newly established Smart Manufacturing and Systems Research Group (SMSRG) at UoSM.