Mentoring Summary

I believe in learning by doing. At Duke, I have been supported by a Laboratory and Curriculum Development Fellowship from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science during my master's studies. This fellowship allowed me to collaborate with Prof. George Delagrammatikas to design and build Duke's latest prototyping space, "Garage Lab." Learn more about their awesome work.

Students Mentored

Current Students

• Zacharias Chen, Senior
• Alexa Cahilig, Senior
• Rohan Bhansali, Senior
• Roslyn Bellscheidt, Junior

Former Students

• Caroline Chen, MS
  • Chen, C., Prakash, R., & Codd, P. J. (2024). VesselNav: A MedSAM-Enhanced Framework for Precision Vessel Segmentation and Navigation in Robotic Surgery. [Poster Presentation, ISMR 2024]
• Humberto Andre Lopez, Junior
• Mahi Patel, Sophomore
• Changxin Yu, MS
  • MS Project: A Deep Learning Pipeline for Unsupervised OCT Image Segmentation. Won 3rd prize in the Department's MS poster symposium.

Teaching Experience

Identified teaching bottlenecks and developed self-learning modules for Intro to Medical Robotics & Surgical Technologies course with Prof. Siobhan Oca, as part of Collaborative Expeditions Grant through Bass Connections Foundation.

As a teaching assistant for the "Experiment Design & Research Methods" course, I guided graduate students from diverse backgrounds in developing prototyping and experiment design skills through a semester-long curriculum. This experience honed my ability to work closely with students and provide actionable guidance to help them achieve their milestones.

• Experiment Design & Research Methods
  • Spring 2022: Teaching Assistant
  • Spring 2021, Fall 2021: Laboratory and Curriculum Development Fellowship (Teaching Assistant)