Teaching
Courses Taught
- Jan. 2016 – Jun. 2019
(4 Years)Senior Design Capstone I&II (MAE162D/E), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), 173 Seniors
- Aug. 2013 – May 2014
(1 Year)Engineering: Thermodynamics (ME 3501), The Ohio State University (OSU), Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), 100 Juniors
- Aug. 2012 – May 2013
(1 Year)Engineering: Dynamics (ME 2030), The Ohio State University (OSU), Undergraduate Teaching Associate (UTA), 100 Sophomores
- Sep. 2007 – Oct. 2007
English as a Second Language (ESL), Nova Corporation, Osaka, Japan, Online English Instructor
Teaching Awards
- Apr. 2014
Graduate Teaching Associate Award, in honor of “Outstanding Teaching and Student Interaction,” presented by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of The Ohio State University (OSU).
Currently Advised Students
- 2021–Present
Amin Khatibi, Mechanical engineering undergraduate
Novel remote center of motion mechanism design - 2021–Present
Hwey-Ying Bethany Chang, Mechanical engineering undergraduate
Eye docking for Zeiss iOCT microscope mechanical design - 2021–Present
Tamir Melzer-Bronstein, Computer engineering undergraduate, UC Santa Cruz
Automated retinal tracking from surgical microscope data - 2021–Present
Phillip Ko, Mechanical engineering undergraduate, MAE 199 Researcher
Automated bottle height detection warning system - 2021–Present
Nathan Kim, Mechanical engineering undergraduate, MAE 199 Researcher
Deep-learning-based segmentation of OCT data in phacoemulsification - 2021–Present
Lily Takahari, Computer science undergraduate
Surgical image segmentation for deep-learning model training - 2021–Present
Hanna Co, Computer science undergraduate
Surgical image segmentation for deep-learning model training - 2020–Present
Mia Reyes, Mechanical engineering graduate student
Guarantee of cannulation and infusion during automated retinal vein cannulation procedure - 2020–Present
Persiana Saffari, First-year medical student
Intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT) use in cataract surgery - 2020–Present
Shreyas Bharadwaj, “Fast Track To Success” electrical engineering undergraduate
Automated image-segmentation of retinal vein images - 2020–Present
Jonathan Huang, Mechanical engineering undergraduate
Mechanical design of intraocular robotic surgical system and devices [website]
Previously Advised Students
- 2020–2021
Conor McGartoll, Mechanical engineering undergraduate
- 2021
Daphne Raigrodski, Mechanical engineering undergraduate, MAE 99 Researcher
- 2019–2021
Kenneth Vuong, UCLA bioengineering undergraduate [website]
Became intern at Motivo Engineering - 2020
Durga Ganesh, First-year medical student
- 2019–2020
Tyler McCown, Mechanical Engineering
Graduated with an MS from UCLA - 2019–2020
Jessica Chen, Computational & Systems Biology
- 2019
Jeremy Arvesen, Aerospace Engineering
- 2019
Raj Intwala, Mechanical Engineering
Currently an Engineering Intern at Traction Labs - 2018–2019
Michael Cui, Mechanical Engineering
Accepted to Master's Program at UC Berkeley - 2018–2019
Patrick Cheng, Mechanical Engineering
Became a Process Engineer at Intel Corporation - 2017–2018
Mengyuan Chen, Mechanical Engineering
- 2017–2018
Brendon Fernandes, Mechanical Engineering MAE Scholar
UCLA Mechanical (MAE Scholar) - 2017–2019
Sehej Sandhu, Mechanical Engineering
Became a Systems Engineer Intern at JPL - 2016–2017
Edwin Rachmawan, Mechanical Engineering
Became a PhD student in Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, UCLA - 2018
John-Pierre Sawma, Mechanical Engineering
- 2016–2017
Crysta Curl, Physics
- 2017
Vibhav Gaur, Mechanical Engineering
Pursuing a Masters at University of Texas at Austin - 2017
Raymond Hoong, Mechanical Engineering
Became a 2020 Fellow at Venture for America - 2017
Edward Shen, Aerospace Engineering
- 2016–2017
Linghao (Carlos) Zhang, Mechanical Engineering
Became a Software Engineer at Google - 2016
Chico Baber, Transfer Student Summer Research Program
- 2016
Samuel Lidzbarski, Transfer Student Summer Research Program
- 2016–2017
Shuwei Chen, Physics
Currently a Product Designer at Flexport (San Francisco, CA) - 2016
David Egen, Mechanical Engineering
Became a System Engineer II at Northrop Grumman - 2015
Marios Christofides, High School Summer Research Program
- 2015
Han Wang, Undergraduate from Tsinghua University, China
Became a PhD student in Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, UCLA - 2013–2014
Claire Cui, Mechanical Engineering
Continued on to obtain her Master's from Carnegie Mellon University (2017) - 2013
Christian Goodrich, Civil Engineering
Became a Project Engineer at ESP&S (Columbus, OH) - 2012–2013
Kyle Korn, Mechanical Engineering
Became an Application Engineer at Rockwell Automation (Cleveland, OH) - 2012
Qian Zhang, Mechanical Engineering
Became a Reliability Engineer at Google