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A running record of mentorship, tutoring, and community work across Caltech, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Oklahoma. Most of this is one-on-one — undergraduate research, STEM advising, graduate-school prep, and course tutoring.

§ 01 — Mentorship

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships — Caltech.

SURF 2019 cohort — Fig. 01 — SURF cohort, Caltech 2019 —

Mentor·2019 — present

Mentor, SURF, Caltech.

As a postdoctoral scholar I have and continue to mentor students participating in Caltech's flagship undergraduate research program. A selection of projects we've explored together:

Jade Leong

Mechanical behavior of entangled, non-convex granular particlesUMass Lowell

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Katheryn Wang

Uniaxial compression of discrete S-shaped particlesHarvey Mudd

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Sydney Richardson

Tensile behavior of entangled non-convex granular particlesCaltech

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Animesh Rastogi

Pluviation simulation and angle of repose of entangled granular materialsIIT Gandhinagar

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Omkar Kadam

Free-standing columns of designed granular particles via level-set DEMIIT Gandhinagar

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Eleni Blatsouka

Stability of granular structures of non-convex particles under vibrationNTU Athens

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Graciela Lopez

Influence of slenderness on the bearing capacity of a confined granular columnU. Costa Rica

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Utkarsh Gupta

Granular material in-fill inside a confining annulusIIT Delhi

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§ 02 — Residential advising

Resident Tutor, Cabot House, Harvard.

While a graduate student at MIT, for two years I resided in Cabot House, an undergraduate residence at Harvard University, as Resident Tutor among 400 undergraduates. I primarily interacted with students pursuing STEM concentrations, advised them on academic and non-academic career paths, assisted on graduate-school applications, scholarships, fellowships, and research internships, and tutored in math, physics, and engineering.

§ 03 — Tutoring

Multicultural Engineering Program, University of Oklahoma.

As an undergraduate scholar in the Multicultural Engineering Program — the flagship program at OU's College of Engineering for diversity and inclusion — I tutored and mentored students in a variety of math, physics, and engineering subjects.