Category: SCIENCE

I had the honor of working on this Review for Advanced Functional Materials covering the bulk of what someone might want to know about building a Neuroelectronic device. In particular, I worked on the FDA, Substrates, Interconnects, and Encapsulation sections and anything that has to do with materials. Online Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adfm.201909165 At the lab, https://www.dion.ee.columbia.edu/, I worked on human use… Read more →

Dimensionless groups are a handy tool to approach engineering problems – most commonly used by Mechanical Engineers but overall a generally applicable method of summarizing complex systems. This document is a summary of many of the most commonly used dimensionless groups and includes a summary of the theory, derivation, and usage of these groups on page 7. This is just… Read more →

Summary: Digital health promises a paradigm shift for medicine where biomarkers in individuals are continuously monitored to improve diagnosis and treatment of disease. To that end, a technology for minimally invasive quantification of endogenous analytes in bodily fluids will be required. Here, we describe a strategy for designing and fabricating hydrogel microfilaments that can penetrate the skin while allowing for… Read more →

What defines a robot? Just kidding, I won’t get into that! However, I wanted to share some of what I learned from a lovely “introductory” robotics course I took at Columbia University, taught by Dr. Matei Ciocarlie. This course was full of twists and turns for someone without any robotic navigation experience, but was a magical way to describe movement… Read more →

In Columbia’s Brain Computer Interface class, run by Dr. Nima Mesgarani in the Electrical Engineering Department, our last lab assignment involved taking EEG recordings from one of our lab members (s/o to Jacob and Liang) during either left or right imagined movement. These EEG recordings are processed to reveal subtle differences in the motor cortex – resulting from just imagining… Read more →

  All content in this document is my own – and does not represent the views of any company. It’s just a cool list of some of the things that make me happy to work in Medical Devices, and some tips for people who want to get into industry.   Read more →

I did all the CAD and simulation work for this project. My largest roles were flow and temperature cycle balancing, device usability design, and FEA simulations. The device detects the presence of four different cancer treatment response markers in under half an hour using the patient’s blood. It is also handheld and portable, with a replaceable chip inside a reusable… Read more →

This project was a set of RFID tiles that interacted with a hidden RFID reader. The reader is mounted underneath a table, making it seem like the table just reads by itself. There are action tiles (lightbulb, etc) and modifier tiles (red, green, triangle, square, etc.). Materials: IKEA Table (because the cheap black ones are hollow) Microcontroller of Choice with… Read more →

  I got a chance to work with a couple members of the Shapeways team to address one of the bigger problems facing any 3D design marketplace – designer ease of use. Here are slides from my proposal presentation, including weighted flows.     Read more →