Dr. Trayanova is the Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation and is the Director for AI Research in Health and Medicine in the Data Science and AI Institute.
Trayanova has pioneered the development of patient heart digital twins and deep learning approaches to predict risk of cardiac arrest and the precise delivery of catheter ablation. Her research output includes 450 papers, many in most prestigious journals. For her pioneering work, she received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. She holds numerous patents and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2019, Trayanova was inducted in the Women of Technology International Hall of Fame.
She has received the Distinguished Scientist Award and the Douglas P. Zipes Lectureship Award from Heart Rhythm Society and the Gordon Moe Award from the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. She is the recipient of the 2025 Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Award by the Physiological Society. Trayanova has been named a Fellow of every American and European clinical cardiology society. She is also a Fellow of AIMBE, BMES, IAMBE, IUPS, and IEEE.