Aadhi Mohanavelu

Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching, mentoring, and advising across infrastructure systems, environmental assessment, 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 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.

Aadhityaa (Aadhi) Mohanavelu with Osman Lab members at AGU 2025, reconnecting with students and mentees presenting research

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At AGU 2025 with members of Osman Lab. I also had the chance to reconnect with students and mentees I had worked with earlier, several of whom were presenting their research for the first time 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 (Selected)

  1. Water service field research

    Supervised and trained 15+ undergraduate researchers supporting a King Center-supported water service quality project in South India, including household survey implementation, field logistics, respondent coordination, data-quality control, and preparation of field data for spatial service-quality analysis.

  2. Climate-health and environmental spatial analysis

    Supervised student research contributions for an interdisciplinary kidney stone disease study in Sri Lanka, including environmental exposure context, water-quality data organization, field data workflows, and spatial analysis of climate-health and environmental risk patterns.

  3. End-user sensing and field data workflows

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

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

    Worked with students and early-stage teams through Stanford coursework, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Venture Studio, and sustainability-focused settings, offering guidance on research framing, infrastructure problems, and practical pathways from ideas to implementation.