Mentoring
"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves" - Spielberg
Sarthak Bhagat, Department of Electronics Engineering, Undergraduate Researcher (June 2018-Till Date).
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, India.
• Project Title: Imitation learning for soft hydrogel robots.
Mohamed Suhail, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate Researcher (March 2018-Sep 2018).
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.
• Project Title: Hydrogel Actuators for Sensors & Biomedical Soft Robots.
Keith Gerard Lopez, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Thesis (Aug 2018-Apr 2019).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Thesis Title: Gel-Based Automatic Bladder Irrigation System. [pdf]
Siddharth Kumar Sah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Researcher (April 2018-Jul 2018).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard University, USA.
• Project Title: Soft Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics.
Oh Yao Wei Aaron, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Thesis (Aug 2017-July 2018).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Thesis Title: Double Network Hydrogel Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger Characterization with Bidirectional SMA Actuation. [pdf]
Bryna Tan Cheng, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Thesis (Aug 2017-July 2018).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Thesis Title: Flexible Soft Robots Actuated by Electroactive Polymers for ENT Surveillance. [pdf]
Tai Kai Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Thesis (Aug 2017-July 2018).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Thesis Title: Origami-Inspired Deployable Surgical Retractor for Thyroidectomy: Retroauricular approach. [pdf]
Malapaka Venkata Suman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Thesis (Aug 2017-July 2018).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Thesis Title: A Minimally Invasive Kidney Biopsy Needle and Biocompatible Drug Delivery Function [pdf]
Abigail Martin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate 3rd Year Intern (Jul 2017-Dec 2017).
Drexel University, USA.
• Project Title: Flexible Surgical Robot for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery.
Pubudu Roopasinghe, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate 3rd Year Intern (Jul 2017-Dec 2017).
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• Project Title: Design, and Fabrication of a Soft Magnetic 3-D Force Sensor for Urinary Tract Monitoring. [pdf]
Shawn Cherian, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate 3rd Year Intern (April 2017-Jul 2017).
Drexel University, USA.
• Project Title: Tracking and Monitoring Transoral Robotic Surgical Systems.
Neha Pusalkar, Department of Electronics Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Intern (April 2017-Jul 2017).
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India.
• Project Title: Origami-Inspired Friction Controlled Tendon Driven Peristaltic Soft Robot.
Sakshi Kakde, Department of Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Intern (April 2017-Jul 2017).
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India.
• Project Title: Origami Based Deformable Wheeled Soft Robot: Inspired By An Umbrella Structure.
Li Ting, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Final Year Thesis (Aug 2016-Apr 2017).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Thesis Title: Magnetic actuated micro-robotic diagnostic intervention. [pdf]
Ajit Deshpande, Department of Bioengineering, Brown Fellows Program, Exchange Undergraduate Student (Aug 2016-Dec 2016).
University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
• Project Title: Controlling Variable Stiffness Through The Use of Layer Jamming Mechanisms in a Modular Soft Manipulator.
Toby Zhu, Department of Bioengineering, Exchange Undergraduate Student (May 2016-Jul 2016).
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Project Title: Fabrication of Patient-Specific Intracranial Aneurysm Models for Burst Testing.
Zhang Dong, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Student (Apr 2016-Jun 2016).
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Project Title: Disposable and Printable Surgical Robot.