Los Angeles, California
2009 - 2012
Deerfield, Massachusetts
2012 - 2016
Atlanta, Georgia
2016 - 2021
Durham, North Carolina
2022 - Present



News:
[10/25] Won 1st Place, Audience Choice Award, and Most Disruptive Research Award at the 2025 Duke Neurosurgery Shark Tank.
[10/25] Presented "Novel Steerable Robotic Tool for Endoscopic Approaches: A Cadaveric Study" at the 2025 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).
[03/25] "Inguinal Hernia Simulation Model" won 1st place at the 2025 American College of Surgeons (ACS) DIY Model Competition.
[02/25] "Tendon Actuated Concentric Tube Endonasal Robot (TACTER)" accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR).
[12/24] Awarded Duke Bass Connections Health Policy and Innovation Award towards developing a course on how to create high-fidelity surgical simulators for surgical training.
[11/24] "Inguinal Hernia Simulation Model" made Finalist in 2025 American College of Surgeons (ACS) DIY Model Competition.
[08/24] Became Engineering Lead at Duke Department of Surgery's Surgical Education and Activities Lab (SEAL)
[05/24] "Towards The Development of a Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer for Endoscopic Surgical Laser Scanning" won Best Student Paper Award - 2nd Place at International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR).
[04/24] Passed Qualification Exam
[04/24] Awarded NSF GRFP (Robotics)
[02/24] Two conference papers accepted to IEEE 2024 International Symposium on Medical Robotics, one first-author paper titled "Towards the Development of a Tendon-Actuated Galvanometer for Endoscopic Surgical Laser Scanning".

