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Masters Courses
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Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality Experience Design
Design and prototype development of Mixed Reality environments, experience with A-Frame, Mozilla Hubs & Spoke, and Unity Steam VR
Sonification Lab
Research and design of an adventure travel experience for visually impaired individuals. Includes User Research, concept design, and prototype evaluation. Submitted design was a real-time 3D video capturing tool and rendering using LIDAR on smartphone cameras and 3D rendering in Mozilla Hubs. s a prototype tool. Computing
Mobile Ubiquitous Computing
Development of Mobile Ubiquitous Computing devices. Overview of Heads-Up Displays UX Research
Research Methods
Overview and implementation of Research Methods: Surveys, Card sorting, User-based testing, etc UX Design
HCI Foundations
Double Diamond, iterations and evaluation of a prototype
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Post Undergrad Courses
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Machine Learning
This is an introductory course available in Coursera. Some of the subjects discussed are: Linear and Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, PCA, and Unsupervised Learning. Specific assignments include: spam classifiers, a movie recommendation system, and handwritten-numbers recognition system.
Psycholinguistics
This course did an overview of how humans learn, represent, comprehend, and produce language. Some of the topics were visual and auditory recognition of words (McGill Effect), sentence comprehension, reading, sentence production, language acquisition, neural representation of language, bilingualism, and language disorders.
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Undergraduate Courses
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Engineering
Graduate level Bioelectronics
Study of the biomolecular interactions of electronic processes at the nanoscale as well as the use of biosensors for in-vivo acquisition of data and theranostic potential. Study and development of new ideas for accurate single base sequencing using nanopore technology as well as an extensive review of the current technology. Analysis of DEP technology as a point-of-care technology for detection of biomarkers in early cancer detection. Study of electrophoretic techniques as a fast biomarkers detection technique.
Characterization Techniques
Fundamentals and practice of methods to image, measure, and analyze materials and devices that are structured at the nanometer scale. Optical and electron microscopy; scanning probe methods; photon-, ion-, electron-probe methods, spectroscopic, magnetic, electrochemical, and thermal methods. Carried out Rietveld refinement for crystal structures and interpreted the results of Bragg Factor and Weighted Factor.
Modeling of Nanosystems
Principles and applications of molecular modeling and simulations towards nanoengineering. Topics covered include molecular mechanics, energy minimization, statistical mechanics, molecular dynamics simulations, and Monte Carlo simulations. Project included modeling the behavior of methane atoms in a simulation mesh and visualize it through JMP.
Biomedical Imaging
Study of multiple bioimaging techniques: confocal, flow cytometry, FRET, FLIP, FRAP, NSOM, STORM, SNAM, optical tweezers, TIRF, SEM, SPM, STEM, TEM, AFM.
Nanofabrication
Introduction to methods for fabricating materials and devices in nanoengineering. Nano-particle, -vesicle, -tube, and -wire synthesis. Top-down methods including chemical vapor deposition, conventional and advanced lithography, doping, and etching. Bottom-up methods including self-assembly. Integration of heterogeneous structures into functioning devices.
Fluid Mechanics
Kinematics and equation of motion; hydrostatics; Bernoulli’s equation; viscous flows; turbulence, pipe flow; boundary layers and drag in external flows; applications to chemical, structural, and bioengineering.
Statistical Analysis
General introduction to probability and statistical analysis, applied to bioengineering design. Topics include preliminary data analysis, probabilistic models, experiment design, model fitting, goodness-of-fit analysis, and statistical inference/estimation. Written and software problems are provided for modeling and visualization.
Circuit Design
Fundamental circuit theory concepts, Kirchoff’s voltage and current laws, Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems, loop and node analysis, time-varying signals, transient first order circuits, steady-state sinusoidal response. Introduction to linear and nonlinear components and circuits. Topics will include: two terminal devices, bipolar and field-effect transistors, and large and small signal analysis of diode and transistor circuits.
Nanomaterials
Basic principles of synthesis techniques, processing, microstructural control, and unique physical properties of materials in nanodimensions. Nanowires, quantum dots, thin films, electrical transport, optical behavior, mechanical behavior, and technical applications of nanomaterials. A final project involved determining a new to synthesize the precursors necessary to make a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell.
Material Science
Structure and control of materials: metals, ceramics, glasses, semiconductors, polymers to produce useful properties. Atomic structures. Defects in materials, phase diagrams, micro structural control. Mechanical, rheological, electrical, optical and magnetic properties discussed. Time temperature transformation diagrams. Diffusion. Scale dependent material properties.
Biomechanics
Introduction to mechanics: statics and dynamics, free body diagrams, and bodies in contact. Vectors and tensors; stresses, theory of deformation, and constitutive equations. Equations of motion. Biomechanics design examples. Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Overview of neuroanatomy and major methods and results from neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies of behavior. Topics include attention, motor control, executive function, memory, learning, emotion, and language.
Cases of Brain Damage
Introduction to the neural mechanisms underlying perception, memory, language, and other mental capacities. Topics include how brain damage affects these capacities and how patients with brain lesions can contribute to our understanding of the normal brain.
Learning and Memory
Overview of the neurobiology of learning and memory, from cognitive to molecular neuroscience, including human, animal, cellular, and molecular studies of memory. Topics include amnesia, intellectual disability, exceptional intelligence, aging, and Alzheimer's disease.
Illusions and the Brain
This course provides an examination of visual, auditory, and tactile illusions and examines how they arise from interactions between perceptual and cognitive systems.
Psychology of Sleep
This course provides an overview of the psychology of sleep, including sleep stages and their functions, neurological aspects of sleep, sleep across species and development, dreams and their interpretation, sleep disorders, and the role of sleep in learning and memory.
Statistics
This course provides an introduction to both descriptive and inferential statistics, core tools in the process of scientific discovery and the interpretation of research
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