Mentoring & Teaching

I have mentored ten undergraduate and graduate researchers. They work on real instrument hardware and firmware, from schematic design through testing to field validation, and several have led papers on that work.

Students

  • Albert Huang · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2026 – present
  • Winnie Li · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2025 – present
  • Sophia Da Costa · graduate research (Ph.D.), University of Toronto
    2024 – present
  • Sebastián Manosalva · graduate research (M.Phil.), University of Chile
    2024 – 2026 CHARTS engineer after graduation
  • Coby Silayan · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2024 – 2026 Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award, honourable mention (2025) Admitted to the Ph.D. programme at the University of Chicago
  • Victoria Allder · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2024 – 2025
  • Chris Lansdale · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2023 – 2024 Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award (2024) Best student poster award
  • Jessica Meng · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2023 – 2024
  • Adi Khandelwal · undergraduate research, University of Toronto
    2023 – 2024
  • Carol Yan Yan Chan · undergraduate research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    2021 – 2023

Papers with student co-authors are marked in the publication list →

Teaching

  • Dunlap Summer School · lecture and laboratories
    2025
  • Classical Mechanics · teaching assistant, HKUST (PHYS 3032)
    2021 – 2022
  • General Physics I with Calculus · teaching assistant, HKUST (PHYS 1112)
    2020 – 2021
  • Methods of Experimental Physics II · teaching assistant, HKUST (PHYS 3153)
    2018 – 2019
  • Best Teaching Assistant Award · HKUST
    2019

Service and outreach

  • Dunlap Summer School 2025 · organizing committee
    2024 – 2025
  • CHORD collaboration · Equity, Diversity and Inclusion working group
    2024
  • Hong Kong Astronomical Society · helper
    2016 – 2019
  • Student Astronomy Club, HKUSTSU · academic secretary
    2015 – 2016