Mentoring

2019 - 2020

1. Mentoring Yuhao Hirobin (master's student in ISEN) on mechanical property characterization of 316L stainless steel
2. Mentored four undergraduate students in the summer of 2019
   • Daniel Yoon (NSF-REU), Synthesis, characterization, and reconditioning of magnetorheological abrasive fluids (MARF) for localized polishing of freeform surfaces
   • Aditya Varma Yalamanchili, Optimal design of an electropermanent magnet using stress concentration principle to realize maximum magnetic concentration.
   • B N Ravi Srivatsa, Machine learning approach to identify different microstructures of additive manufactured 316L stainless steel
   • Aakash Yadav, An image processing approach to track the particle trajectory in a directed energy deposition process using high speed imaging.
3. Mentored Shirish Pandagre (master's student in ISEN) on rapid microstructure characterization via acoustic emission signatures from a nanoindentation-based lithography process.

2018 - 2019

1. Mentored four undergraduate students in the summer of 2018.
   • Kyle King, Synthesis of magnetorheological abrasive fluids (MARF) for localized polishing of freeform surfaces
     • Joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M as a master's student
   • Ipshita Panda, Identification and tracking of multiple surface defect types in additive manufacturing using a novel P-spline based image analysis
   • Merryll Dewabrata, Microstructural Characterization of Ti-6Al-4V using acoustic emission signals during nanolithography test
   • Ian Hall, Targeted finishing of freeform geometries using magnetic concentration
2. Mentored Iskandar El-Amri (master's student in ISEN) on developing a magnetic concentration principle for finishing freeform surfaces.

2017-2018

1. Mentored two undergraduate students in the summer of 2017.
   • Rushikesh Kure, Additive manufacturing of a magnetic fluid finishing setup
   • Ganatma Nakkina, Prediction of epileptic seizures using balanced random forest techniques
     • Joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M as a Ph.D. candidate

2016 - 2017

1. Mentor for ENGR 491-508: Texas A&M Aggie Challenge program from Fall 2016 - Summer 2017
   • A group 13 interdisciplinary undergraduate students participated in the development of a Point of Care (POC) health informatics for proactive epilepsy seizure alert [proposal, presentation, video]
   • Winner of the 2017 Aggie Challenge Project Award
   • One of two teams to be selected as winners of the Shell Award at the Engineering Showcase. This award is presented to the highest scoring non-capstone team project by the College of Engineering at Texas A&M.