Kyle Mudge

Kyle Mudge is a PhD student in the KTH-KI Joint Doctoral Programme, studying Cardiovascular Medical Technology at the KTH Intelligent Heart Technology Lab and studying Cardiovascular Medical Science at the Karolinska Institutet Division of Clinical Physiology. His main research project (Aortic Assist) explores the interactions between Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) and cardiovascular autoregulation, using this information to develop less invasive MCS medical devices and more effective clinical guidelines. 

Kyle earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2019 and an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2020. He completed his Bachelor's Thesis with Boston Scientific developing a soft robotic model of human oesophageal peristalsis and completed his Master's Thesis as an S.E.M.P. Scholar at ETH Zurich developing a self-regulating ventricle pump for a soft total artificial heart. 

Outside of academia, Kyle has worked in Research and Design in the medical device industry at Sports Engineering Inc, Boston Scientific, and Scandinavian Real Heart. Before beginning his PhD, he also worked as a Research Scientist at ETH Zurich, where he focused on the translation of a new medical device from an exploratory concept towards application in industry as a future product. 

Research Interests:

Kyle's research interests centre on the intersection of soft robotics, medical device design, and cardiovascular systems physiology, with the ultimate goal to improve heart failure treatment through improved clinical practices and the development of mechanical circulatory support devcies that better integrate with the native physiology. 

Teaching and Supervision:

Kyle is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for KTH HL2014 Safe Medical Devices and KTH CM2008 Entrepreneurship in Technology and Health. He also coaches the KTH Heart Hackathon Team, a student team that competes in the annual international Heart Hackathon total artificial heart design competition. 

There are frequent opportunities to complete a Master's Thesis or Research Assistant position in relation to these research projects. If you are interested in this research, contact Kyle by email. 

Current and Previous Students: 

2026, KTH - Cay Lindberg - M.Sc. Thesis, Innovative Technology for Healthy Living, and Independent Research Project

2026, KTH - Zhixuan Zhu - M.Sc. Thesis, Mechatronics

2025, KTH - Cay Lindberg - Independent Research Project

2025, KTH - Russell Hii Ching Wei - Independent Research Project

2025, KTH - Georgios Adamopoulos - M.Sc. Thesis, Medical Engineering

2024, KTH - Lisa Svedberg - M.Sc. Thesis, Innovative Technology for Healthy Living

2023, ETH Zurich - Leonardo de Haro - M.Sc. Thesis, Materials Science

2023, ETH Zurich - Yvonne Oberholzer - M.Sc. Semester Project, Biomedical Engineering

2022, Scandinavian Real Heart - Yun-Ting Lee - M.Sc. Thesis, Medical Engineering