Teaching

This page includes information on my teaching, tutoring, and other instructional experiences. For more information on the courses I have taught, please visit the Penn State Undergraduate Bulletin for course descriptions. For more information on my sections, click the corresponding pages. For students enrolled in these courses, please visit your course page on Canvas.

Teaching Awards

I have been awarded the Charles H. Hoover memorial award (Fall 2022 - Spring 2023) in recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching by a graduate teaching assistant.

Teaching Certifications

I am working on the Penn State CIRTL Teaching Certificate Program, which has replaced the Graduate School Teaching Certificate. I have completed the Penn State CIRTL Associate Level Certificate (Summer 2024).

I have obtained Teaching Associate status in the Department of Mathematics.

Professional Development

• I attended the Teaching Workshop offered through the Department of Mathematics (May 19-20, 2025).

• I attended the Teaching and Learning Seminar offered through the Department of Mathematics (Fall 2023).

• I completed the Schreyer Institute Course in College Teaching (Spring 2023).

• I completed the Schreyer Institute New Instructor Orientation (Fall 2022).

• I completed Graduate Teaching Assistant training through the Department of Mathematics (Fall 2021).

Teaching History

• Spring 2026 (scheduled):

  • MATH 230 (4 credits), Calculus and Vector Analysis (Instructor, 1 section)

• Fall 2025:

  • MATH 231 (2 credits), Calculus of Several Variables (Instructor, 2 sections)

  • MATH 232 (2 credits), Integral Vector Calculus (Instructor, 1 section)

• Spring 2025:

  • MATH 035 (3 credits), General View of Mathematics (Instructor, 1 section)

  • MATH 232 (2 credits), Integral Vector Calculus (Instructor, 1 section)

• Fall 2024:

  • MATH 230 (4 credits), Calculus and Vector Analysis (Instructor, 1 section)

• Summer 2023:

  • MATH 110 (4 credits), Techniques of Calculus I (co-Instructor, 1 section) (merged with another section)

• Spring 2023:

  • MATH 251 (4 credits), Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Instructor, 2 sections)

• Fall 2022:

  • MATH 251 (4 credits), Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Instructor, 2 sections)

Teaching Assistant/Grader History

• Spring 2024:

  • MATH 568 (3 credits), Analytic Number Theory I (Grader, 1 section)

• Fall 2023:

  • MATH 536 (3 credits), Abstract Algebra (Grader, 1 section)

• Summer 2022:

  • MATH 250 (3 credits), Ordinary Differential Equations (Teaching Assistant, 2 sections)

  • MATH 251 (4 credits), Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Teaching Assistant, 1 section)

  • MATH 252 (1 credit), Partial Differential Equations (Teaching Assistant, 1 section)

Tutoring History

• Fall 2019 - Spring 2021:

  • Volunteer Math Tutor at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ

  • Tutor for most undergraduate Math and some undergraduate Statistics courses

• Fall 2018 - Spring 2021:

  • Tutor at Rowan College of South Jersey in Sewell, NJ

  • Tutor for all Math courses and some Spanish courses

Additional Instructional Experiences

At Penn State, I have been involved in the design and implementation of transition programs. These programs—bootcamp in the summer and intersession in the winter—aim to help prepare first-year graduate students for the qualifying exam courses. My roles are listed below. For more information on the bootcamp and intersession programs, see here.

• Summer 2025:

  • coordinator

• Summer 2024:

  • coordinator

• Winter 2023–2024:

  • coordinator

• Summer 2023:

  • coordinator,

  • editor for the book of materials

• Winter 2022–2023:

  • coordinator,

  • writer of problems, solutions, and notes for functional analysis,

  • editor for the book of materials

• Summer 2022:

  • co-designer and co-coordinator for the program,

  • writer of problems, solutions, and notes for logic and abstract algebra,

  • facilitator for logic and abstract algebra sessions,

  • editor for the book of materials