Education Materials

Materials re Philosophy, CV and DEI Statement

I see students thrive with three basic things: simple structures to tackle complex problems, example applications, and opportunities to practice and apply this. I have learned that students engage when they are expected to solve difficult problems after the basics have been covered. They asked more insightful questions when the task is challenging. Students can memorize equations, but they struggle when the inputs or outputs are less clear, which requires multiple examples and sometimes multiple methods to solve a problem.

Student work presented below from my first course in Introduction to Robotics where students learned basic principles and applied their knowledge to use industry standard software, ROS with move-it and Gazebo to complete a task of their choosing.

Students were introduced to ROS with a first warm-up exercise using Turtlebot to learn about the communication protocol, examples of the homework submissions are shown below

I am passionate about robotics, specifically applied robotic systems, and my goal is to teach robotics and related courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Using my masters in translational medicine and work in industry, I have the rare qualifications to teach interdisciplinary courses including regulatory, design, ethics, biomedical applications and entrepreneurship.