top of page
backgroundTeaching.png

Teaching

CV

​

Google Scholar

Academic Instruction

​

​

My love of teaching scientific coursework is obvious in that I've served as a university teaching assistant for six different courses:

  • Pitt CHEM 0310: Organic Chemistry 1 (2014)

  • Pitt BIOENG 1320: Biosignals and Systems (2017)

  • Pitt BIOENG 1586: Quantitative Systems Neuroscience (2018)

  • CMU 18690: Introduction to Neuroscience for Engineers (2019)

    • Gave guest lecture on reward processing in the brain

  • CMU 42631: Neural Data Analysis (2019)

    • Gave guest lecture on the "anatomy of a neuron"

  • CMU 42302: Biomedical Engineering Systems Modeling and Analysis (2020)

​

I was honored to be awarded the 2020-21 Graduate Student Teacher of the Year award by the Carnegie Mellon University Biomedical Engineering department. See the student testimonials to the below - they're some of the best emails I've received!

There are few things I enjoy as much as watching someone have that moment of clarity, when a concept is properly taught to them and it just clicks - and me being the one who makes it click!

meTeachingSignals.png

Impromptu explanation of the Fourier transform to a group of Biosignals and Systems students after a BMES student body meeting in 2017. Somehow this is the only picture I have of me teaching... and you can't read the board's contents.

BMETANomination2.png
BMETANomination.png
5_NDA_happyEmail.png

Non-Academic Settings

OMManualSnippet.png

A snippet from the desktop CNC tutorial I wrote for the BioBuild Makerspace in Pitt's Benedum Engineering Hall from 2017

A quick organic chemistry concept example I wrote for an email to a student in 2016

OChemInductionExample.png

My love of teaching is definitely not relegated to the college classroom.

 

Over the years, I've also taught:

  • Taekwondo to students aged 4-64 (2009 - 2014)

  • Biology and engineering concepts in >100 hours of outreach programs in the local Pittsburgh area

  • Desktop CNC machine use and safety (2017 - 2018)

  • Everything from alkyne reduction to circuit reduction to dimensionality reduction in 1-on-1 sessions

​

I'm always looking for new teaching opportunities and better ways to explain tough concepts!

bottom of page