Professional Experience
- Design Studio Coordinator and Course Instructor, University of Toronto, January 2015 to Present
- Managed the Biomedical Engineering Design Studio at the University of Toronto
- Guided students from several design courses in their projects involving: 3D printing, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, electromyography, soldering, and stereomicroscopy
- Course instructor for fourth year Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design course
- Full year entrepreneurial project-based design course focused on identifying needs, inventing solutions, and implementing a solution
- Topic include: strategic focus, disease state fundamentals, stakeholder analysis, market analysis, existing solution analysis, reimbursement analysis, regulatory analysis, business model exploration, and rapid prototyping
- Developed course syllabus, assignments, and lectures
- Pediatric Rehabilitation Intelligent Systems Multidisciplinary Lab Research Assistant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, September 2011 to August 2015
- Graduate student research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Tom Chau
- Developed a brain-computer interface aimed to provide individuals with severe motor impairments with a means of communicating using their cognitive abilities without any required movement or speech
- Explored personalized mental tasks, learning, self-regulation, and multi-class classification
- Medical Information-technology Research Group Research Assistant, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, September 2009 to August 2011
- Graduate student research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Monique Frize
- Developed a physician-parent decision support tool to aid parents with children in the neonatal intensive care unit to track progress and make tough medical decisions
- Teaching Assistant/Communication Instructor/Course Instructor, University of Toronto and University of Ottawa, January 2010 to December 2014
- Teaching Assistant, Biological systems engineering, University of Toronto, Fall 2012, 2013, and 2014
- Communication Instructor, Fourth year design project, University of Toronto, Fall 2013 and Winter 2014
- Course Instructor, Second year civil engineering communication course, University of Toronto, Fall 2013
- Communication Instructor, Design portfolio, University of Toronto, Winter 2013
- Communication Instructor, Human centered system design, University of Toronto, Winter 2013
- Teaching Assistant, Fourth year engineering science thesis, University of Toronto, Fall 2012 and Winter 2013
- Communication Instructor, Foundations of design portfolio, University of Toronto, Fall 2012 and Winter 2013
- Teaching Assistant, Design of artificial joint prosthesis and implants, University of Ottawa, Fall 2010
- Teaching Assistant, Bioinstrumentation, University of Ottawa, Winter 2010,University of Ottawa, Fall, 2010
- International Pharmaceuticals Generics Ltd, Ottawa, ON, May 2009 to September 2009
- Researched and developed new drug submissions for generic prescription drugs
- Developed understanding of various Health Canada regulations
- The Mosey Group Research Assistant, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, August 2008 to April 2009
- Developed a chemical simulation method that switches between molecular mechanic and quantum mechanics methods (Temporal QM/MM)
- Horton Group Research Assistant, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, May 2007 to September 2007
- Performed laboratory and research work attaching cysteine to gold
