Teaching & outreach

Sharing the work

Sharing knowledge through talks, workshops, and educational content on AI, robotics, and software engineering — and through mentoring students who have not usually been given a way in. Much of my teaching has been in medical AI, where the gap between a working model and a clinically useful one is the most interesting thing to teach.

Mentorship

Programmes I have taught in

Summer 2025

Stanford HAI AI4ALL — Graduate AI Mentor

Mentored a cohort of ten high-school students through the Medical AI track. The syllabus ran from advanced linear algebra and machine-learning fundamentals through to deploying real Medical-AI systems, finishing with zero-shot medical image classifiers built on BiomedCLIP and SmolVLM.

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Ongoing

UNC Charlotte AEOP — Graduate AI Mentor

Mentored students through UNC Charlotte's STEM internship program, plus mentoring through Polygence and Ardrey Kell High School. The through-line is the same: inclusive, impactful AI learning built around projects students actually care about.

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Speaking

Talks, panels & presentations

AI at Work session

AI @ Work — FALD-Sponsored Professional Development Session

Invited panellist · UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine

ECTSS 2025 oral presentation

2025 ECTSS — Oral Presentation, Cardiac Surgery

Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society annual meeting

UNC Charlotte MSA talk

UNC Charlotte — MSA

Student organisation talk on AI and career pathways

HabibiTech 2025 panel

Medical AI Panelist — HabibiTech 2025, NYC

Panel on the state of clinical AI deployment

AI Trends co-talk

AI Trends — Co-Talk with Mark Reynoso

Former CEO of Belkin · Open Carolinas

Voice translation tool pitch

Pitching an AI-Powered Voice Translation Tool

Competition pitch and live demonstration

2024 ECTSS — Oral Presentation, Cardiac Surgery
Awarded Best Oral Presentation in Cardiac Surgery
Conference
ESS-AI Tool — Poster Presentation
UNC School of Medicine
Poster
AI & Bot Technology: Ethics, Policies and Etiquette
Workshop
AI-Powered Development
Education
Azure AI Solutions — AI Chat
Education
UNC Charlotte — Career Panelist
Panel
Ardrey Kell High School — Sponsor & Guest Speaker
Outreach
Interview with Issam Alzouby, Founder of iRepairCLT
Perky Collar Radio Show
Podcast
Leadership

Leadership & outreach

Work outside the lab — community organising, translation, and building software for people who cannot pay for it.

Stanford HAI AI4ALL mentoring

Stanford HAI AI4ALL — Graduate AI Mentor

Mentored students through the medical AI track.

UNC Charlotte AEOP mentoring

UNC Charlotte AEOP — Graduate AI Mentor

Mentored students through UNC Charlotte's STEM internship program.

Community pantry drive

Community Pantry Organizer

Led and organized bi-weekly drives feeding 50+ families each time.

Tech mentoring session

Tech Mentor

Mentored students through hands-on projects, including FPV drones and coding.

Police department outreach

Police Dept Outreach

Organized quarterly outreach initiatives to Charlotte's PD and FD.

Tech conference volunteering

Tech Conference Volunteer

Volunteered at major Southeast tech conferences — led to a full-time role.

UNICEF translation work

UNICEF Translator

Assisted with translations and documentation in Jordanian refugee camps.

Free healthcare clinic project

Free Healthcare Clinic

Developed website and scheduling system for a refugee-focused free clinic.

Looking for a speaker or mentor?

I regularly speak on medical AI, motion generation, and getting research systems into production, and I mentor students at every level.