Teaching

Courses Taught

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Econ 514 International Financial Economics (Graduate, M.S. Program in Policy Economics)

  • Teaching Assistant: Spring 2024

• Econ 422 International Macro

  • Teaching Assistant: Fall 2023, Spring 2024

•  Econ 484 Law and Economics

  • Teaching Assistant: Spring 2023, Fall 2023

• Econ 202 Economic Statistics I

  • Teaching Assistant: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023

• Econ 510 Economics of Taxation (Graduate, M.S. Program in Policy Economics)

  • Teaching Assistant: Fall 2019, Spring 2020

• Econ 490 Welfare Economics

  • Teaching Assistant: Fall 2019, Spring 2020 

• iMBA program, Gies College of Business

  • Head Teaching Assistant: Spring 2018, Summer 2018

  • Course Assistant, Summer 2017

Teaching Statement & Evaluations 

Please read my teaching statement here. 

Selected quotes from teaching evaluations:

• • "Hesong regularly made sure we were comfortable with what was being asked of us when working on the assignments. He was kind and knowledgeable of the material we were learning."

  • "The instructor was always extremely willing to help and explain topics fully. "

  • "Clear and thorough explanation with no unrelated contents."

  • "The major strengths of the instructor is that he is passionate about the topic that he teaches and he articulates his thoughts clearly.

  • "The TA was nice and always willing to explain. I believe his teaching us how to use Excel to answer statistical questions was fun and interesting, and he taught it well."

  • "Patience and ability to explain by simplifying problems and referring to the lecture."

  • "Was very open to questions and happy to help with any problems students were experiencing."

  • "Always available, great office hours." 

Teaching Awards

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent at the University of Illinois, Spring 2020, Fall 2021