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



News:
[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".
[12/23] Awarded Duke Mechanical Engineering Department Best Teaching Assistant Award (Fall 2023)
[12/23] "Development of a Patient-Specific Hydrogel Liver Phantom with Intrahepatic Vascular Architecture" abstract accepted to 2024 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Simulation Summit
[11/23] First-author publication "Preclinical Evaluation of a Novel Steerable Robotic Neuroendoscope Tool" accepted
to Operative Neurosurgery
[06/23] Presented "Incident Angle Study for Designing an Endoscopic Tool for Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection"
at 2023 Hamlyn Symposium in Medical Robotcs
[04/23] Two abstracts accepted to 2023 Hamlyn Symposium in Medical Robotics in London, United Kingdom
[02/23] "Brain-Mimicking Phantom for Photoablation and Visualization" accepted to IEEE 2023 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) in Atlanta, Georgia
[02/23] "Towards Steering a High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy Needle with a Robotic Steerable Stylet"
accepted to IEEE T-MRB
[08/22] Started Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering at Duke University
[07/22] Awarded NSF-NRT Traineeship in Advancing Surgical Technologies (TAST) at Duke University