Mentoring

Teaching at Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) Graduate school at NIH (Fall, 2018 - Summer, 2021)

· Instructor: Online Course Theoretical and Applied Bioinformatics BIOF518/519 (Fall, 2020)

· Co-instructor: Bioinformatics workshop (BIOF082), FAES, NIH (Oct 2020, Apr 2021, Jun 2021)

· Co-instructor for Theoretical and Applied Bioinformatics BIOF518 course (Fall, 2018-2019)

· Co-instructor for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Evolutionary Genomics BIOF450 course (Spring 2019-2020)

· Conducted a Bioinformatics workshop for middle school students (grade 6-8) at the Saturday Science Academy (SSA) (7 March, 2020)

Mentoring students at NIH

· NIH Summer Research Mentor Awardee, NIH, USA (2019)

· Instructor/support mentor for the 2018 NIH Community College Summer Enrichment Program (CCSEP) [students: Mike Ryan Mofor, Noah Denegre, Draven Aquino]

· Preceptor for summer interns: Sreenidhi Sankararaman (2021), Jordan Connors (Summer, 2019), Shalika Neelavani (Summer, 2018), Katherine Du (Summer, 2017) at Dr. L. Aravind’s group, CBB, NCBI, NLM, NIH

Mentoring at CSIR-IMTECH

· Mentor for students of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 47, Chandigarh during their 5-day visit to scientific labs at Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India (25-29 May, 2015)

.... always had a flair for teaching

· earned a bachelors degree in education (B.Ed.) from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (2010).

· 2 months teaching experience at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 8B, Chandigarh as a part of the curriculum for Bachelors of Education. Courses taught: life sciences to grade 8, 9, 10. Responsibilities included: daily attendance and monitoring of students, preparing tests and assessment sheets, lesson plans, grading test sheets, organizing and coordinating school functions and extracurricular activities.