Teaching

I firmly believe that teaching and research are integral parts of the high education mission in universities. Making contact between the textbook material and how those concepts are applied in the real world is an important component of my teaching philosophy.

Classroom Teaching at OU

Phys 101 (Introductory Physics I)

Phys 102 (Introductory Physics II)

Phys 371 (Modern Physics)

Phys 372 (Nuclear Physics)

Phys 381 (Electricity and Magnetism I)

Phys 545 (NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) - current 2019 Fall semester

Laboratory Teaching at OU

Phys 158 (Introductory Physics Lab)

Phys 317 (Modern Physics Lab)

Phys 318 (Nuclear Physics Lab)

Phys 418 (Modern Optics Lab)

Phys 487 (Electricity and Magnetism Lab)

Guest Lectures not in the Physics Department of Oakland University

Biology 305 Course (General Histology), “Articular Cartilage and its Structures” (2002 Sep).

Chemistry 522 Course (Topics in Analytic Chemistry) “Microscopic MRI (µMRI) and its Applications” (2005 Nov 15).

Biology EGB 390 Course (Introduction to Engineering Biology), “Microscopic Imaging and its Application in the Detection of Cartilage Degradation” (2011 Jan).

Exercise Science EXS 525 Course (Biomechanics). “Functional studies of articular cartilage by microscopic imaging” (2017 April).

Guest Lectures outside Oakland University

BME 8070 Course, Wayne State University Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Detroit, Michigan (2009 Oct; 2010 Sep; 2011 Sep).

Member of the PhD Dissertation Committees at Oakland University:

1999 Vijaya Nagesh PhD (Medical Physics), “Magnetic resonance signatures of ischemic histopathology in human stroke”

1999 Donald Peck PhD (Medical Physics), “Evaluation of a linear transformation for segmentation and quantitative analysis of MRI of brain tumors”

1999 Michael A. Jacobs PhD (Medical Physics), “Multiparameter Analysis of Experimental Cerebral Ischemia Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Histopathological Tissue Characterization

2005 Deborah Langrill-Beaudoin PhD (Medical Physics), “Mechanisms for electrical stimulation of cardiac tissue”

2006 Barbara Weiland PhD (Medical Physics), “DC MEG indicators of tumor growth and chemotherapy treatment”

2006 Deborah Janks PhD (Medical Physics), “Unipolar stimulation of cardiac tissue”

2008 Asamoah Bosomtwi PhD (Medical Physics), “Quantitative determination of microvasculature after neurovascular diseases in rat using MRI”

2008 Kumar Athiraman PhD (Medical Physics), “Quantitative determination of labeled cell concentration using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)”

2008 Nachaat Mazeh PhD (Medical Physics), “The Upper Limit of Vulnerability of the Heart”

2008 Phil Prior PhD (Medical Physics), “A study of the detected signals in optical mapping experiments and their potential applications in biomedical imaging”

2008 Steffan Puwal PhD (Medical Physics), “Computational biophysical methods in heart defibrillation”

2008 Ramesh Paudyal PhD (Medical Physics), “The effects of equilibrium intercompartmental water exchange kinetics on MRI estimation of tissue concentration of contrast agents”

2008 Karki Kishor PhD (Medical Physics), “Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigations of Ischemic Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Blood-Brain Barrier Pathology”

2010 Hassan Bagher-Ebadian PhD (Medical Physics), “Application of Adaptive Models in MRI”

2010 Ben Buller PhD (Medical Physics), “Novel Roles for MicroRNA in Brain Pathologies”

2011 ShiYang Wang PhD (Medical Physics), “Quantitative Measurements of Neurite Structure Using Optimized q-space Diffusion MRI”

2012 Dan Xu PhD (Medical Physics), “The magnetic field produced by the heart and its influence on MRI”

2013 Joshua Kim PhD (Medical Physics), “Tetrahedron beam computed tomography: Image reconstruction and application”

2013 Madhava Aryal PhD (Medical Physics), “Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI parameters and tumor cellularity in a rat model of cerebral glioma at 7T”

2013 Shamil M. Hadi PhD (Computer Science and Informatics, School of Engineering), “Estimating effective connectivity within brain emotional circuitry using dynamic causal modeling and fMRI”

2015 Sunil Kandel PhD (Medical Physics), “Response of normal and ischemic cardiac tissue to Electrical stimulation”

2017 Rasha Elmghirbi PhD (Medical Physics), “Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI Measures of Tumor Physiology as Biomarkers of Acute Therapeutic Responses in a Rat Model of Cerebral Glioma”

2018 Kharananda Sharma PhD (Medical Physics), “The Mechanical Bidomain Model of Cardiac Tissue”

External Examiners of the PhD Dissertation from Foreign Universities:

2001 Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Dept of Physics): Bradford Moffat, “Nuclear magnetic resonance micro-imaging of the human eye lens”

2003 University of Kuopio, Finland (Dept of Physics): Miika Nieminen, “Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Articular Cartilage Structural, Compositional and Functional Characterization of Normal, Degraded and Engineered Tissue”

2008 University of Kuopio, Finland (Dept of Physics): Mikko Nissi, “Magnetic Resonance Contrast Parameters in Quantitative Evaluation of Articular Cartilage: Studies on T1- and T2-Relaxation time”

2012 University of Guelph, Canada (Dept of Physics): Christian Schroeder, “Rheo-NMR studies of viscoelastic secondary flows in ducts of non-circular cross-section”

2014 University of Eastern Finland, Finland and University of Lund, Sweden (Dept of Applied Physics): Yevegneiya Kobrina, “Infrared Microspectroscopic Cluster Analysis of Bone and Cartilage”

2016 University of Queensland, Australia (School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering): Anthony Paproki, “Automated image analysis of dynamic and high field musculoskeletal MRI”

2018 University of Oulu, Finland (Faculty of Medicine): Sakari Karhula, “Quantification of osteochondral tissue modifications during osteoarthritis using micro-computed tomography”

Other Teaching Activities

Other teaching activities include supervising and hosting high-school, undergraduate and graduate students, for courses or labs...