Teaching
Teaching Assistant
2026
ME 335 Heat: Transfer, University of Michigan, 20 hrs/week
- Led instruction for 93 students; designed/delivered recitation lectures and held office hours.
- Developed experience in large-class teaching and course coordination.
2025
ME 495: Laboratory II University of Michigan, 20 hrs/week
- Designed and taught two lab sections (24 students) for senior-level laboratory course.
- Broad topics included heat transfer, mechanical dynamics, and AFM-based nanoscale metrology.
- Gained extensive self-directed learning and close student mentorship.
2020
MIE 342: Circuits with Applications to Mechanical Engineering Systems, 15 hrs/week
- Supported a lab course of ˜130 students in a four-TA team.
- Co-developed online laboratory tools for remote instruction during COVID-19, enabling virtual circuit assembly and experimental data acquisition
Students Mentoring
Lingyuan Li
Contact me: llyuan@seas.upenn.edu
Academic training:
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
(Current) Master of Biotechnology, University of Pennsylvania
Research interest: integrating developmental biology with bioinformatics, with the goal of using quantitative and computational approaches to study developmental processes and regulatory mechanisms in complex biological systems.
Ruxin Yang
Contact me: yangrx@umich.edu
Academic training:
Master in Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(Current) Research Assistant in MGH
Research interest: Understanding the mechanism of drug resistance in AML, and exploring synergistic therapeutic strategies that can enhance treatment response and overcome resistance.