Teaching Philosophy & Experience

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I am passionate about teaching Statistics and Math because I care deeply about the value of clear, effective communication. In my teaching, I strive to create a space where students feel safe to take risks and let their intellectual curiosity flourish without fear of judgment.

“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as ‘rootless and stemless.’ We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don’t condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”

--Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis (1997) 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• BIOS 774 (Advanced Machine Learning), Fall 2024
• BIOS 660 (Probability and Statistical Inference I), Fall 2022, Fall 2024
• BIOS 600 (Principles of Statistical Inference), Spring 2023

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

• 21-127 (Concepts of Mathematics), Fall 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2020
• 21-111 (Differential and Integral Calculus), Spring 2019
• 21-241 (Matrices and Linear Transformations), Fall 2017, Spring 2018

Teaching Assistant

• Introduction to Algebra A, Spring 2018
• Probability and Combinatorics I, Summer 2018