Resume
Education
PhD Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2022
MS Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2020
BS Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2015
Research
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Incoming Assistant Professor, 2022 – Present
Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Graduate Research Assistant, 2017-2022
Human Dynamics and Control Lab
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2015
Industry
Yaskawa Electric America
Waukegan, IL
Design Engineer, 2015-2017
Invited Talks
Seminar, National University of Singapore, Singapore, April 2022.
Mechanical Eng. Colloquium, University of California Riverside, Virtual, February 2022.
ECSE Colloquium Series, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, February 2022.
Seminar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Virtual, December 2021.
Intuitive Fellowship Presentation, Intuitive Surgical, Virtual, April 2021.
Intuitive Surgical Research Symposium, Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA, March 2019.
Contributed Talks
Open-source Force Sensors for Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery Research, poster presented at IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation Workshop on Human-centered Autonomy in Medical Robotics, Philadelphia, NJ, May 2022.
Characterization of Haptic Feedback from Multimodal Neural Network-based Force Estimates during Teleoperation, talk presented at Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, Virtual, July 2021.
Teaching Experience
- Course Assistant, ME327: Design and Control of Haptic Systems, 2020
- Teaching Assistant, Innovation Masters Series, d.school, Stanford University, 2018
- Design Coach, Amita Design Challenge, 2016
- Guest Instructor, Digital Making, Gies School of Business, Univ. of Ill. Urbana-Champaign, 2015
Awards and Fellowships
- Young National University of Singapore Fellow, 2021
- Stanford Bio-X Luber Stryer Interdiscplinary Graduate Fellow, 2020
- Chancellor’s Public Engagement Fellow, 2014
- Design For America Outstanding Studio Lead, 2014
- YMCA Fred Bailey Scholar, 2013
- Singapore Police Force Book Prize, 2007
Outreach
- Foothill College, Presented about surgical robotics research and graduate school to community college students. 2021
- Women in Bio, Presented about surgical robotics to 25 high school girls. 2019
- Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, Presented on human-robot interaction and surgical robotics. 2019
- NSUR 249: Exp. Immersion in Neuroscience, Gave presentation and demo on surgical robotics. 2019
- Mission Valley ROP, Gave a hands-on demo of VR surgical training to 20 high school students. 2018