Campus Service

Bard College at Simon's Rock

• Faculty-in-Residence, August 2018 - Present

  • Host a variety of events (such as bonfires, math conference trips, datathons, math modeling competitions)

  • Be a consistent, supportive presence on campus, building community between faculty and students

• Faculty/Staff Committees:

  • Representative to Student Government, August 2021 - Present

  • Faculty Advisor for Title IX, January 2021 - 2024

  • Code of Conduct, August 2018 - June 2020

  • Active Community Engagement, August 2018 - June 2019

  • Staff Assembly, August 2017 - June 2019

• Faculty Advisor for Student Organizations:

  • STEMRaC, 2018 - 2024.  An organization for students of all experience levels interested in STEM fields.  This club focused on STEM recreation and community.

  • Women in Tech, 2018 - Pandemic. An organization for young women, transwomen and non-binary students interested in going into a tech-related field.  Membership is open to male-identifying students who support female-identifying and non-binary people in tech.  

  • Dungeons and Dragons, 2019 - Pandemic.  An organization for students who like to play the table-top game Dungeons and Dragons with like-minded individuals.

  • Queersa, 2017 - 2018.  An organization for students who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community and for students who are outside this community, but support their LGBTQ+ friends.

• Thesis Committees:

  • Advisor for

    • Modeling Uncertainty in Neural Decoding: A Density-based Approach to Connect Neural Activity to Behavior, by Tianxiao He, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2023.

    • A Storage System with Paxos, by Hyc Hou, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2022.

    • Berkshire County Microtransit Planning Study, by Tate Coleman, Bachelor of Arts, Transportation Systems Analysis, 2022.

    • Sentiment Analysis of the Effect of COVID Protection Measures through Tweets, by Mark Ma, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2022.

    • Detecting Foodborne Illness Complaints in Multiple Languages Using English Annotations Only, by Catherine Liu, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2021.

    • The Real Plastic Economy: Toxic Colonialism, by Carla Hamida, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Economics, 2020.

    • Teens in Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Curriculum, by Jessie Parrot, Bachelor of Arts, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, 2020.

    • Live Trojan Attacks on Deep Neural Networks, by Robert Costales, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2020.

    • Detecting Symptoms of Depression in Social Media Data using Machine Learning, by Eunice Park, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2020.

    • Data Representation, Presentation, and Understandability, by Sophie Petters, Bachelor of Arts, Quantitative Studies, 2019.

  • Reader for

    • Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Drought Patterns in Amhara, Ethiopia, by Iman Anwarzai, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2023.

    • Alternative Performance Metrics for Financial Machine Learning Models, by Ajeya Sathyagal, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2022.

    • Adversarial Images in Autonomous Vehicle Systems, by Armann Sandhu, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2022.

    • Suffrage in Switzerland: An International Statistical Analysis of Political, Demographic, and Societal Factors in the Fight for the Right to Vote, by Maxwell Shulman, Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Classics, 2020.

    • A Study of Hausdorff Distance Computation, by Lucy Jiang, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, 2019.

    • Annotating Buildings in the NYC Skyline using Computer Vision, by Roop Pal, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2019.

    • Graceful and Cordial Forests: A Computational Investigation of Graph Labeling, by Feston Kastrati, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2017

    • Chatting with Bots: A Quick Survey of Conversational Agents and Their Appropriate Applications, by Maksim Kotov, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2017

    • A Low-Cost, Feature-Based Color Threshold Selection Approach to Eye-gaze Tracking and a Basis for Gaze Interface, by Vijay Pillai, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 2017

Equity and Inclusion Efforts for Bard College at Simon's Rock:

• Council of Equity and Inclusion, July 2016 - Pandemic

  • One of four primary organizers for Pride Week, October 2017: a week of events celebrating our diverse student population, specifically those who belong to the LGBTQ+ community.

  • One of four primary organizers for the Simon's Rock Benefit Concert for the Ali Forney Center, October 2017:  We raised over $1000 in donations for one of the largest homeless LGBTQ+ youth shelters in NYC.

  • Positive Education Subcommittee: organized character day, September 2016 - 2018.

  • LGBTQ+ Subcommittee: educated the campus on suicide, self-harm, and LGBTQ+ related issues, and held Safe Zone trainings, 2016 - 2017.

• Symposium Day Workshops:

  • Women in Tech: Panel Discussion and Q&A.  Alongside student Iman Anwarzai. 2020.

  • Cultivating an Inclusive Culture in STEM.  Alongside Dr. Jesse Robbins.  2019.

  • oSTEM.  Invited founder Dr. Eric Patridge to discuss the origins of the organization.  2018.

  • Can We Quantify Gerrymandering? Alongside Dr. Ken Knox.  2017.

  • Finding "Y": Social Justice and Math Education.  Alongside Dr. Anne O'Dwyer.  2016.

  • Statistics and Poverty. Alongside student Mallie Prytherch.  2015.

• Equity and Inclusion Initiatives on Campus:

  • One of five faculty who organized Women in STEM board game nights in order to provide a safe space for young female-identifying and non-binary students interested in STEM.  Male-identifying individuals are allowed as long as they support women in STEM. 

  • Co-organizer of EI reading/discussion group for STEM faculty.  We read articles and books that shed light on general racism (e.g., white fragility, how to be anti-racist) and the racist nature of STEM education and its pre-dominantly white workforce.  We discuss how we can do better for our students of color.