Teaching & MentoringPedagogy and supervision

Training the next generation of biomedical engineers, who also understands the clinical utility, is central to what I want to do as a faculty member. While at MIT I have invested in pedagogy and research mentorship through MIT's two flagship training programs.

Statements

• Mentoring statement (PDF)
• Sample syllabus — developed during the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (PDF)

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant — 6.631 Optics and Photonics

MIT EECS · Sep 2021 – Jan 2022

Developed assessments, led office hours, and taught tutorials on optical design software for this graduate-level course. Received perfect TA evaluations of 7.0 / 7.0.

Pedagogical Training

MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program

Sep – Dec 2025

Semester-long seminar in evidence-based college teaching: course design, active learning, assessment, inclusive pedagogy. Culminated in a complete syllabus for a graduate course on biomedical optical imaging.

MIT Research Mentoring Certificate

Jan – Feb 2026

Structured training in pedagogy for supervising research trainees.

Research Mentorship

Lukas Mechs

Visiting Master's student, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg · Aug 2025 – Jan 2026

Co-mentored Lukas's Master's thesis developing a hybrid transformer–CNN U-Net for ellipsoid zone segmentation in AMD. Two first-author abstracts accepted at BVM 2026 and ARVO Imaging in the Eye 2026.

Julian Windeck

Visiting Master's student, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg · Sep – Dec 2023

Trained nnU-Net models for volumetric segmentation of inner retinal layers in diabetic retinopathy; developed an image segmentation pipeline now in active use in the lab.