Teaching and advising

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU):

1. Co-mentor at North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium on Nov. 4th, 2017.

With students: Preston Minter, Janessa Schwallie, Melissa Urena and David Woolford.

Project: Super queuing algorithms in the supermarkets with periodic customer arrival spikes.

The results have been submitted as a paper to Papers and Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research.

2. Mentor of the poster presentation at North Carolina Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium on Nov. 5th, 2016.

With students: Blake Atkinson, Vontas, Kyriakos, Renesha Rodriguez

Project: Bridge designing for the worst of days.

The results have been submitted as a paper to Explorations: the journal of undergraduate research and creative activities for the state of North Carolina.

3. Summer 2016 at UNC Charlotte: Blake Atkinson, Vontas, Kyriakos, Renesha Rodriguez

Project: Forces on bridge: design and improvements.

Students advising:

1. Referee of Recommendation Letter for undergraduate student: Matthew Smith from Brown University (Fall 2017).

2. Referee of Recommendation Letter for undergraduate student: Rongjun Zhu from Brown University (Fall 2016).

3. Mentor of undergraduate research with Renesha Rodriguez in Spring 2017. Worked on “Smart queuing in supermarkets”.

4. Mentor of undergraduate research with Corey Silva in Fall 2014. Worked on “Computation of functions of matrices”.

5. Project leader for Kobe-Brown Summer School on high performance computing from Aug. 23 to Aug. 27, 2014.

Worked on “Brittle fracture using particle discretization of peridynamics” with two Kobe graduate students and two Brown

graduate students.

6. Mentor of undergraduate research with Corey Silva in Summer 2014. Worked on “Theory of functions of matrices”.

8. Referee of Recommendation Letters for undergraduate students: Sliva, Corey; Lee, Tae Jun,Tross, Harrison and Zhu, Jialei

from Brown University in Fall 2013.

Teaching:

1. Undergraduate courses at UNC Charlotte: differential equations; linear algebra and matrix; introduction to probability and stochastic process;

2. Graduate courses at UNC Charlotte: introduction to partial differential equations; introduction to finite element methods;

3. Undergraduate courses at Brown University: introduction to scientific computing; operations research; mentor of independent study on numerical algebra of random matrix; introduction to computational linear algebra;

4. Summer 2014: Teaching assistant for the GirlsGetMath@ICERM program at Brown University

5. Graduate courses at Brown University: topics in coupling methods for materials science; topics in computational materials science

6. Fall 2013: Applied Math Division peer course observation

7. Fall 2012 Sep. 10: Sheridan Center Workshop: Interactive Classrooms and Teaching Training