Teaching Experience
During my time in undergrad I TAed three courses in Intro to Programming I and II and also a Microsoft Office course, a requirement for every student. Student class sizes had been around 30 students. I tutored physics and calculus during my undergrad. After completing my undergrad I served as a Tutor for high school students in both physics and geometry.
Once I started my PhD program I TAed for several courses where the class sizes were around 50 students for the first courses and around 10 for the second semester of the physics courses. Physics labs I and II, the course Students learn how to measure and apply physics principles in the laboratory. I served as a TA for astronomy labs where students learn the basics and foundations measure theory, and how to conduct experiments based on pure observational methods. I taught several physics recitations for physics I and II where students learn to solve physics problem sets.
As I prepare for a faculty role, I have been working on generating a series of public outreach short educational videos for the general public. I have also been working on generating a few public outreach demonstration videos for how to potentially utilize AI in the classroom and research lab, for both educators and students. I have also been working on collecting a set of references and notes to develop two courses for utilizing machine learning in STEM courses aimed at undergrads, and a separate one at grad students, and developing a series of references, and notes to serve as an online reference for students taking the course.
Teaching
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Physics Astronomy Lab 111 30-50 students 2015, 2016
Laboratory experience surveying the astronomical enterprise and the
scientific study of the universe, including methods by which observations
and measurements are interpreted to determine physical laws, cosmic
history, and evolution.
Course Material:
Physics Astronomy Lab 112 30-50 students 2015, 2016
Laboratory experience in conceptual and collaborative approach to
understanding the scientific processes by which astronomers make
inferences about stars’ and galaxies’ formation and evolution from
ground- and space-based observations.
Physics Astronomy Lab 113 30-50 students 2015
Laboratory experience demonstrates how astronomy is practiced through
observation experiences, laboratory experiments, and exercises involving
analysis of data.
Course Materials:
This course often had concepts dealing with Kepler's laws, orbital dynamics, and related content. Students have access to various tutorials and short videos to demonstrate critical concepts of orbit transfer and more. Further explored to help the student visually see both the practical, engineering and scientific side of orbital mechanics. In addition to being used for this course, I also included such videos to demonstrate rocket staging for a space science course I was tutoring.
I used a set of notes to help prepare students for a given recitation. By creating the notes it provided easy access to the students. I walk through each problem showing the full derivation and units so the students can observe my thought process as I work through each problem.
Provide students with a live demonstration of the behaviors of a large collection of charged particles. This is to demonstrate to the students how this large system leads to dynamic emergent effects and can offer interactivity for project based learning.
FDTD Application (on the front page)
A demonstration to teach the complex ideas behind electromagnetic simulations, which often take hours to run, this real time interactive approximation allows students to see how the simulation runs in real time. The students will have access to the code for their own explorations.
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I aspire to teach, mentor and guide the next generation of students in the application of explainable machine learning in the interdisciplinary nature of tomorrow’s STEM fields. Specifically, my goal is to facilitate the integration of computer/data science with physics, biology, and chemistry, fostering a more interconnected and innovative approach to these disciplines. I aim to equip students with the tools and skills to illuminate the black box of machine learning. I hope to drive my students curiosity by allowing them to explore, compare and contrast various machine learning approaches to data generated by computational methods they may have seen from a junior year course. I also hope to illustrate to students how methods from the physical sciences form the foundational theories behind many classic machine learning papers, and I hope to make these connections clear and accessible to my students such that they are more prepared and equipped with a board set of tools to help them make advancements, work, and discoveries in tomorrows workforce and research labs.
Teaching
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2014-2023
Physics Teaching Fellowship in Physics
2015
Astronomy Lab 101
Undergrad Teaching Assistant, Java I, II, CS 101
,112,118, Undergrad labs consisted of:
Hertzsprung Russell Diagrams, orbital occlusion and period measurements,
stellar classification,determination of isotropic asteroid belt distributions,
spectral classification of gasses, measurement of Hubble Constant via red shift of type II supernova
In person Physics I, II Labs, Physics I, II Recitation
Determination of spring constants, energy and frictional forces utilizing Pasco
system equipment. determination of resistance,voltage,current,electric and
magnetic fields, diffraction and diffusion grating spacing
Online Physics I Lab,Physics I, II Recitation
Held live lab sections for Q and A for at home IO Device labs. Ran online
recitation for Physics I and II, AL
Pittsfield Public School System
2013 - 2013
Tutored Math and Physics Tutored high school physics and geometry
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
2013 - 2013
Tutor lab college level Math and Physics Tutored physics, trig and calculus
2009 - 2013
Undergrad Teaching Assistant, Java I, II, CS 101 Answered questions and assisted professor in running Java I and II course. Assisted professor with guiding students to navigate office productivity software in CS101.
Camden County College
2008 - 2009
Comp Lab Assistant Computer lab assistant, to answer technical questions from students, and non specific course questions
Physics Visualization for Education
Wave mechanics using shader techniques in unity, and unreal engine
polarizability of charged spheres, thermodynamic visualizations for instructive purposes
Researched how error related to sample size on two physical phenomena, radioactive decay and an infinite square well.
Use shader based graphical programming to emulate machine learning systems for distributed web platforms for better visualization and understanding of Ising Models, reaction diffusion, decay, and other physical models models
Simple modeling of photonic imagining systems to demonstrate various optical resolution criterion, and airy discs for visual understanding.
Simple modeling using noise to create ground truth datasets of fracture surface for visualization and clarification of machine learning resolution and resolvability studies.
Developed shader based and numpy based statistical photonic modeling to illustrate the temporal dependence of images and sensor detection.
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