Teaching & Mentorship
Educational institutions are the beating hearts of our societies. Universities are entrusted with the vital task of preparing the next generation of thinkers, inventors, businessmen and citizens. As such, I consider teaching to be an immensely important profession.
TEACHING
Computational Methods in Materials Science Spr 2020
Online Mini-Course
Instructor (Designed and taught an online mini-course to mentee)
Solid-State Electronic Devices Fall 2018
Undergraduate Course
Guest Lecturer
Optics, Electricity and Magnetism Fall 2007, Spr 2008
Undergraduate Laboratory Course
Teaching Assistant
Helped undergraduates with non-physics backgrounds, conduct physics experiments
VLSI Fabrication Techniques Spr 2013
Undergraduate Course
Teaching Assistant
GRADUATE AND POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORING
Arne Van Zegbroeck (Advisor: Bart Soree)
Masters Research Project: Spin wave based artificial synapse
Sabyasachi Tiwari (Advisor: Bart Soree)
Doctoral Research Project: Design of novel 2D magnetic heterostructures
Sam Liu (Advisor: Jean Anne Incorvia)
Masters Research Project: Context-aware neuromorphic computing
Nupur Navlakha (Advisor: Sanjay Banerjee)
Postdoctoral Research Project: Design of novel 2D electronic devices
Can Cui (Advisor: Jean Anne Incorvia)
Doctoral Research Project: All-electrically tunable skyrmion lattice for oscillating neurons
Suyogya Karki (Advisor: Jean Anne Incorvia)
Doctoral Research Project: Tunnel Magnetoresistance in ScN Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH MENTORING
Dhruv Dagwar 2022-23
Indian Institute of Technology ASMP Mentorship Program
Aditya Mehta 2022-23
Indian Institute of Technology ASMP Mentorship Program
Ajinkya Patil 2022-23
Indian Institute of Technology ASMP Mentorship Program
Coordinator of National Science Foundation – Research Experiences for Undergraduates center (NSF-REU).
Supervised summer research projects for undergraduate students
Oversaw program advertisement, student recruitment, project design, research progress, obtainment of
deliverables, student learning and dissemination of results.
Frank Yang (Advisor: Daniel Wasserman) Summer 2019
REU Project: Fabrication and characterization of free-standing infrared pixels for high-speed IR detector applications
Scott Burlinson (Advisor: Deji Akinwande) Summer 2019
REU Project: Controlled Thermal Oxidation of TMDs: TMO/TMD Interface
Isaac Bodeman (Advisor: Sanjay Banerjee) Summer 2019
REU Project: Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of MoSe2
William Bennett (Advisor: Alex Q. Huang) Summer 2019
REU Project: Use of a Field Plate to Optimize a Schottky Diode
Jonathan Zheng (Advisor: Ray T. Chen) Summer 2019
REU Project: Silicon-on-Insulator Holey Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Mid-IR Gas Sensing