Teaching & Mentoring Experiences

Teaching

I have been assisting my supervisor in teaching two Biomedical Engineering courses at IIT Delhi, especially the lab sessions. The course is taught by the primary faculty/professor and I, as a grad student, assisted him in taking the lab (coding) sessions, and taking some of the presentations and lectures. These classes are electives and are done for M.E. students (from biomedical/electrical/interdisciplinary engineering streams). 

2018-2021

BML735: Biomedical Image Processing: Assisted lab-sessions on Medical Image Processing using MATLAB, ImageJ at IIT-Delhi 

BML720:  Biomedical Image Acquisition: Assisted lab-sessions on Medical Image Processing using MATLAB, ImageJ at IIT-Delhi

2022-2023

Masters of Science (MS) in Biomedical Imaging, UCSF: Delivered lectures assisting Dr. Richard Souza on MRI Image Acquisition and MRI Basic Physics

October, 2023

Attended a 20-hour Evidence-Based Teaching course at the University of California, San Francisco. 

This eight-module course, which is offered by the Office of Career and Professional Development, is an introduction to science education for UCSF postdoctoral scholars and graduate students who are planning on teaching during their training or their future positions.

It focuses on evidence-based teaching strategies that support student-centered learning in the classroom, with an emphasis on supporting diverse learners. Participants experienced active learning as students in the course, researched specific strategies, and applied the concepts learned in class through a short teaching demonstration. 

The learning goals of this course are for participants to: 

• Design exam questions and lesson plans by creating measurable and aligned learning outcomes and assessments using Bloom's taxonomy and backward design 

• Apply teaching strategies grounded in education research by using a constructivist and student- centered approach to teaching as well as clickers, rubrics, think-pair-share, jigsaw, or educational technology 

• Describe strategies that can support the needs of diverse types of learners at the undergraduate and graduate level by creating an inclusive classroom culture 

• Develop a statement of teaching philosophy describing use of evidence-based strategies 

Mentoring

• In 2019, I have supervised and mentored two master's students and two junior grad students during my grad-school experience. 

• In the year 2022 during my work at UCSF, I supervised two interns under the CI2 internship program. 

• In the year 2023, I mentored: 

i) An assistant specialist working in the MQIR-CI2 lab at UCSF, 

ii) a rotation grad student in the MQIR-CI2 lab working on an MR-Net based algorithm to predict labels (tibiofemoral, patellofemoral, normal, or mixed) on Knee joint OA from clinical low-resolution scans, 

iii) a grad-student from the Physical therapy and rehabilitation lab, 

iv) three Masters of Translational Medicine students from UCSF-Berkeley joint program, 

v) two interns working on UCSF-CI2 internship program

Details of the projects and mentees can be shared if required.