mentorship

Mentoring students is one of the most rewarding experiences as an academic and one that I have thoroughly enjoyed. To strengthen my mentoring practices, I participated in an NSF workshop at UT-Austin titled Inclusive Mentoring of Undergraduate Researchers in STEM. From this workshop, I have incorporated the following key points into my own mentorship practices: (1) active listening, (2) clear communication of expectations, and (3) fostering a reciprocal research compact. These values have guided my approach since then and have helped me collaboratively work with undergraduate, graduate, and medical students at UT-Austin and Stanford (see below).

Joseph Cho

Research Engineer, Stanford University
Developed generalizable deep learning systems for medical image synthesis and pediatric echocardiography analysis

Dhamanpreet Kaur

Medical Student, Stanford University
Examined sex-disparities in performance of foundation models for cardiac MRI

Abhinav Kumar

Graduate Student, Stanford University
Developed novel-view synthesis techniques for reconstructing cardiac anatomy in 3D

Aniket Dembi

Vising Medical Student, Stanford University
Benchmarked performance of quantized deep learning models for echocardiography analysis

Adil Dahlan

Vising Medical Student, Stanford University
Developed tools to align patient data for large-scale medical deep learning

Tatum Eades

Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Cardiovascular Institute Summer Program, Stanford University Developed soft-robotic left ventricle to simulate hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

Chien-Yu Lin

Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
Developed non-destructive methods to experimentally characterize soft tissue thickness

Collin E. Haese

Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
Computationally examined effect of tricuspid annuloplasty ring selection on valvular mechanics

Alberto Madariaga

Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
Developed low-cost biaxial tensile test device

Vijay Dubey

Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin
Automatically segmented tricuspid valve geometries from 3D echocardiography scans

Joesph Brozovich

Undergraduate Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
Developed augmented reality visualization models for iOS

Alex Lozano

Undergraduate Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
Accelerated hyperelastic shape matching methods for the tricuspid valve

Saivee Shelke

Undergraduate Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
Examined data compression techniques for hyperelastic shape matching methods

Palbo S Anguiano

Undergraduate Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin
Automatically co-registered anatomic and DT-MRI scans from the ovine right ventricle

Zhaokun Xue

Undergraduate Researcher, Moncrief Summer Internship, The University of Texas at Austin
Quantitatively analyzed tricuspid annuloplasy ring geometry