News:  I won the Outstanding Teaching Scholar Award for UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Scholars (SGTS) program! I was one of six recipients university wide for the contributino to undergraduate education.  link 

"Your teaching was evaluated based on several key criteria, including your deep engagement with the course material, your thoughtful course design and delivery, your ability to effectively utilize multiple supports and resources, your active participation in the SGTS community, and your growth as an educator."

News: I'm giving a teaching-related talk at JMM 2026! (At AMS Contributed Paper Session on Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Education)
Maps, Models, and Making: Integrating Projects, Inquiry, and Concept Maps in ODE classroom slides 

Summer 2025: Math 20D, intro to differential equations

Course Website: https://sites.google.com/view/math20d/

Student Course Evaluation: link

Teaching Sample: link  (Bonus lecture given after the final)

Teaching reflection: link

My Teaching Philosophy and Evaluations: 

My Teaching Portfolio: 

Pedagogical Innovation: 

I integrated project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and concept maps in my teaching.  link 

Outside of classroom, I devoted part of my time to education research and pedagogical innovation. 

Some of my work is reflected in my talk at UCSD Education Innovation Expo: link 

Teaching Papers in preparation: 

Johnny Jingze Li, “Fostering Interdisciplinary AI Education Through Project-Based Learning: A Case Study” (link)

Johnny Li, “Maps, Models, and Making: Integrating Projects, Inquiry, and Concept Maps in Differential Equations classroom” (link)

Johnny Jingze Li, “Concept Maps based Learning Path Recommendation and Navigation” (link)

Kalyan Basu, Johnny Jingze Li, AlShinaifi, Faisal, Zeyad Almoaigel, “A Mathematical and Algorithmic Framework for Efficient Concept Acquisition by Learners” (in preparation)

My  teaching activities outside of UCSD:

In summer 2020 and 2021, I served as instructor for Project Nous, holding STEM seminars in the liberal arts style, with self-designed curriculum, for students in southwest China (Kaili, Guizhou and Hanyuan, Sichuan). My seminar focus on understanding some important concepts in science and technology in an intuitive way, through Socratic conversations, and appreciate the intrinsic beauty of them. 

I also had the honor to serve as the intructor for "Understanding Calculus", a class offered at summer 2022, TRIO Program at UCSD Extension,  targeted towards low-income, first generation students who aspire to attend college immediately after high school graduation.

I'm in pursuit of teaching that fulfills students potential to the maximum, and brings a worldview that everything is connected.