I am currently teaching Math 1210: Survey of Calculus I.
My office hours for Fall 2025 are Tuesdays 11:30 - 1:00 in Kerchof 401, and Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00 in the MCLC.
I'm available to meet virtually most Mondays and Wednesdays - feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk!
I have taught four courses as instructor of record in the single-variable calculus sequence at the University of Virginia (UVA). I am a proponent of active learning in the classroom, and find value in spending class time having students present work, or working through student-generated approaches to problems together on the board (regardless of whether or not they work).
In Fall 2024, I was a peer mentor for the 2nd year math graduate students as they taught their first calculus courses at UVA. This involved observations of each of the eight students multiple times over the course of the semester, in which I noted how the instructors:
enabled students to access the course material,
encouraged a growth mindset within their classroom, and
provided opportunities for the students to actively engage with the material in class.
During Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, I led sections of the Math Experimental Lab (formerly Geometry Lab) at UVA. This is a 1-credit course for small groups of undergraduate students interested in math, though not necessarily majoring in it, to interact with higher-level mathematics in a hands-on way.
In Fall 2024, J.D. Quigley and I led a Lab on geometry over finite fields and coding theory. You can find the final projects of these students at this GitHub repository; this includes an 18-page introduction to finite fields and coding theory, implementations of several different codes in Python and C++, and more.
In Spring 2025, Valia Gazaki and I led a Lab on the field theory of compass and straightedge constructions. Students demonstrated that compass and straightedge constructions are sufficient for carrying out all field operations, and also learned the Galois theory required to understand the field of compass-and-straightedge-constructible numbers. The course culminated in proofs of the impossibility of squaring the circle and of doubling the cube.
In Fall 2022, I supervised Trevor Millard in a Directed Reading Program at UVA. This program pairs motivated undergraduate students with graduate students to learn some topic of overlapping interest. Trevor and I studied Murty and Fodden's "Hilbert's Tenth Problem," a delightfully low-level and self-contained exposition of the proof that there does not exist an algorithm for determining solvability of a Diophantine equation over the integers.
Past teaching while at the University of Virginia:
Mentoring 1st time instructors, Fall 2024
Math 1220: Survey of Calculus II, Fall 2023
Math 1210: Survey of Calculus I, Spring 2023
Math 1310: Calculus I, Fall 2022
Math 3310: Basic Real Analysis, Spring 2022 and Fall 2021 (Discussion sections + grading)
While at Virginia Tech:
Elementary Calculus, Spring 2021 (Lab Instructor, virtual)
Business Calculus, Spring 2021 (Lab Instructor, virtual)
Intro to Discrete Math, Spring 2021 (Grading)
Elementary Calculus, Spring 2020 (Lab Instructor, hybrid)