Teaching & Mentoring

As a graduate student, I officially mentored 7 undergraduate researchers across 8 different projects, and served as an informal mentor for at least 3 others. I also received formal training in mentorship through my participation as a graduate mentor in the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). This included training on topics such as “building and maintaining an accountable mentoring relationship”, “planning and assigning a workflow timeline”, and “negotiating the mentor/mentee dynamic.” Learn more about URAP here. 

At UIUC, I was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for BIOE 415: Biomedical Instrumentation Lab. This lab course primarily focused on building circuits and using them to make measurements. I instructed students in building a variety of circuits for applications such as signal amplification, temperature sensing, and heartrate monitoring. Learn more about the course here. 

My students' positive feedback led to my inclusion in the UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent both semesters in which I was a TA. See the lists for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. I also received the Bioengineering Department Teaching Excellence Fellowship in Spring 2017.

Below are some highlights from student feedback forms:

At UMD, I was an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow for ENME 351: Electronics and Instrumentation II. This course primarily focused on building circuits and utilizing Arduino and Processing to interface with code and expand circuit functionality.