Teaching

Teaching is one of my great joys. 

Currently at Harvard, I am teaching Neuro101U, "Introduction to Neural Computation", a year-long discussion-based course for undergraduate juniors concentrating in Neuroscience. In this course, we cover the mechanisms driving our sense of direction, our sense of space, reinforcement learning, and decision-making. Classes are a combination of lectures and paper discussions, and many assignments focus on practicing concise and clear scientific writing. Feel free to email me for course materials!

Previously at Stanford, I co-taught "Math Tools in Neuroscience" (old website here, recent website here) which is a quarter-long course aimed at giving first-year Neuroscience PhD students a background in the mathematics required for scientific research. I taught this course originally with Lane McIntosh, and then later with Alex Williams and Chris Stock. In this course we covered linear algebra, statistics, information theory, probability theory, and dynamical systems, and mentored each student through an end-of-year project. Feel free to email me for course materials!

I was also a teaching assistant for the Methods in Computational Neuroscience course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA in 2017. In addition, I was a teaching assistant for the Systems Neuroscience Module for first year PhD students with E.J. Chichilnisky and Jennifer Raymond.

Previously at William & Mary, I was a teaching assistant for Cellular Biophysics & Modeling and for Introduction to Physics for Life Sciences.