Aadhi Mohanavelu

Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching, mentoring, and advising across infrastructure systems, environmental data, and public-interest engineering.

I am still early in my teaching experience, but teaching and mentoring have become an important part of how I think about research. I have worked with students through Stanford courses, field research teams, undergraduate research programs, fellowship networks, and informal advising conversations.

My own training has also made me curious about different ways people teach. Across Stanford, I have taken courses in engineering, medicine, international policy, business, design, and sustainability, and each setting has shown me a different way to explain complex problems, structure discussion, and connect ideas to practice.

I try to bring that learning into my current roles as a teaching assistant, research mentor, and peer advisor: being clear, giving useful feedback, connecting technical work to real examples, and helping students find their own direction.

I also regularly mentor students and early-career researchers who reach out through Stanford, LinkedIn, email, fellowship networks, and research programs for guidance on graduate school applications, research direction, fellowships, and interdisciplinary career paths.

Research group at AGU conference.

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At AGU 2025 with members of Osman Lab. I also had the chance to reconnect with students and mentees from India as they presented some of their first research work at an international conference.

Teaching at Stanford

CEE 277L / CEE 177L: Smart Cities & Communities: Sustainability Design Thinking

2026

Teaching Assistant · Stanford University

Supporting instruction for an interdisciplinary course on smart cities, sustainability design thinking, community systems, and data-driven urban innovation. Assisting with grading, office hours, student project feedback, and applied design/modeling assignments focused on city and community systems. Scheduled to help lead selected class sessions on applied urban systems and sustainability topics.

CEE 245E / CEE 145E: Equitable Infrastructure Solutions

2026

Teaching Assistant · Stanford University

Supporting course planning and refinement through case materials, class activities, and applied examples on infrastructure equity, climate risk, service delivery, and interdependent civil infrastructure systems. Contributed research-based course materials used across three iterations of the class, including examples on infrastructure service delivery, environmental risk, and equity-centered planning.

Research Mentoring

  1. Stanford SURGE undergraduate research mentoring

    Mentored an undergraduate researcher on field measurement, fixture-level sensing, prototype testing, and data workflows for end-user water monitoring.

  2. King Center-supported spatial analytics and field work

    Mentored and coordinated interns performing spatial analytics, researchers involved in household survey implementation, field data organization, and research workflows for water service quality measurement in South India.

  3. Infrastructure, sustainability, and venture-oriented student teams

    Worked with students and early-stage teams through Stanford coursework, GSB Venture Studio-related activities, and sustainability-focused settings, offering guidance on stakeholder conversations, research framing, infrastructure problems, and practical pathways from ideas to implementation.

  4. Peer and fellowship mentoring

    Regularly speak with students and prospective researchers who reach out for guidance on graduate school applications, research direction, the Quad Fellowship, fellowship essays, and interdisciplinary research pathways.