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Teaching Experience

I developed a deep passion for educating at the age of fifteen, when I was first hired to tutor mathematics. Since then, teaching has become an avenue to share the excitement and warmth of my own learning. The principle of collaborative learning was strongly emphasized at Pomona, where I worked as a mentor. Since then, at UCI, I have worked as a teaching assistant, leading discussion sections, preparing my own course material, and facilitating quizzes/exams.

Course Webpages

Webpages for the courses I have taught are still being built, with the help of Obsidian and Claude.

Selected Evaluations

He's a fantastic explainer. I'd go in to his office hours not understanding anything and would come out of them understanding everything. He's super approachable, too -- math can feel very intimidating at times, but one of the best things about him is he makes it feel a lot less scary. I can tell that he truly wants us to understand calculus and succeed. — Summer 2023, Calculus I

He would draw pictures and give several examples as to the theorems/subjects he was explaining. In addition, his upbeat tone and expressions made discussion extremely entertaining, which encouraged me to genuinely listen to what he had to say. I also felt that his down to Earth and approachable attitude to make me feel comfortable in asking questions/asking for further elaboration on all aspects of math. — Winter 2024, Calculus II

Outreach

Sharing the joy of mathematics has been a passion of mine, and one of the main drivers of my interest in the field. In high school, I spent a majority of my free time as as a mathematics tutor at Sigma Academy, a local tutoring center in my hometown. While at Pomona College, I continued this commitment by serving as the only mathematics student at the Quantitative Skills Center, offering extra course support in any mathematics course offerred at the Claremont Consortium. These experiences largely shaped the member of the mathematics community that I aspire to become, and motivated the community-building efforts I took on while in graduate school.

Directed Reading Program

Most recently, I have been serving as a mentor and organizer for the UC Irvine Directed Reading Program. As a mentor, I've run reading courses on:

Winter 2024: Introduction to Topology

James Bird, Cullen Kurzenknabe, Ahoora Tamizifar, Matthew Eimers, Matthew Blake

Fall 2024: Learning Community in Point-Set Topology

Kaylee Seojin Lee Kim, Bryan Jose Silva, Sasha Lin, Isabelle Nhi Tran, Ziqi Liu, Akshara Saha, Kian Bahramian, Crystal Tran, Tatsiana Barysiuk, Tommy Chen.

Winter 2025: Learning Community in Algebraic Topology

Cullen Kurzenknabe, Kaylee Seojin Lee Kim, Bryan Jose Silva, Sasha Lin, Isabelle Nhi Tran.

Service

I have served as the Chair for Undergraduate Outreach for the UC Irvine chapter of the AWM, a role in which I work closely with the UCI Undergraduate Mathematics Committee to host $\LaTeX$ seminars, graduate and professor panels, and information sessions on REU and graduate applications.

$\LaTeX$ Templates

I have a number of templates available on my GitHub, including

This is available for UC Irvine, University of St. Thomas, and Pomona College. (coming soon to Occidental College, pending logos). If you would like a customized version for your school, please feel free to reach out to me via email!
For those starting out with $\LaTeX$, I have a short tutorial and basic homework template.

I highly recommend using MathCha for TikZ diagrams, DeTeXify for learning commands, Quiver for commutative diagrams, and MathPiX for converting photos into source code.