Teaching
Teaching awards & mentoring
BLAIS Tandem Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University
Sontag Center Course Development Grant, HIVE at the Claremont Colleges
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Category of Mathematics, USC
University Outstanding TA Award Nominee, USC
Teaching mentor of the incoming PhD students, Summer 2014, USC
Teaching mentor of the incoming PhD students, Summer 2015, USC
TA coordinator, Winter 2018, Northwestern University
Courses taught
Claremont Colleges: Pitzer College, CA, USA
First Year Seminar: Political Geometry
Limitless Boundaries: The Art and Math of Surfaces (co-taught with Prof. Tim Berg)
MATH30P: Integrated Calculus
MATH 32: Multivariable Calculus
MATH55: Discrete Mathematics
MATH 102: Ordinary Differential Equations
MATH145A: Shapes of Surfaces: Geometric Topology
MATH198: Math Forum (co-facilitator)
Nesin Mathematics Village, Şirince, Turkey
Shapes of Surfaces, Summer 2023
Introduction to Geometric Topology, Summer 2024
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Semester Research Projects
Student Seminar in Symplectic vs. Contact Geometry joint with Ana Cannas
Northwestern University, IL, USA
MATH 250 Elementary Differential Equations, Spring 2020
MATH 300 Foundations of Higher Mathematics (two sections), Spring 2020
MATH 306 Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics, Winter 2020
MATH 399 Independent Study, Summer 2019
MATH 234 Multiple Integration and Vector Calculus (two sections), Winter 2019
MATH 240 Linear Algebra (two sections), Fall 2018
MATH 224 Integral Calculus of One Variable Functions (two sections), Winter 2018
MATH 220 Differential Calculus of One-Variable Functions (two sections), Fall 2017
University of Southern California, CA, USA
MATH 040x Basic Mathematical Skills*, Spring 2015
Santa Monica College, CA, USA
MATH 2 Precalculus, Summer 2016
MATH 85 Algebra, Winter 2017
MATH 2 Precalculus, Spring 2017
MATH 7 Calculus I, Spring 2017
MATH 2 Precalculus, Summer 2017
*This course is the only course offered in the Department of Mathematics at USC where select graduate assistants are given the opportunity to teach.
Teaching assistantships
University of Southern California (USC)**
MATH 117 Introduction to Mathematics for Business and Economics
MATH 118 Fundamental Principles of the Calculus
MATH 125 Calculus I
MATH 126 Calculus II
MATH 225 Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations
MATH 425b Fundamental Concepts of Analysis
MATH 434 Geometry and Transformations
MATH 435 Vector Analysis and Introduction to Differential Geometry
MATH 440 Topology
MATH 475 Introduction to Theory of Complex Variables
MATH 520 Complex Analysis
MATH 535 Differential Geometry
MATH 574 Applied Matrix Analysis
Middle East Technical University, (METU)***
Linear Algebra
Calculus I for Engineering and Sciences
Calculus II for Engineering and Sciences
Calculus III for Engineering and Sciences
**Teaching load for teaching assistants at USC: 6 hours of discussions per week and grading of quizzes, assignments and midterms.
***Teaching load for teaching assistants at METU: 4 hours of recitations per week and grading of quizzes and midterms.