Teaching

Spring Semester 2017 - Michigan State University

• MTH 305 - Functions and Calculus for Elementary and Middle School Teachers [Syllabus] [Course Page]
  Functions and calculus needed for understanding connections between topics of calculus and the mathematics taught in middle school.

Previous Teaching (all at Michigan State University)

• Fall 2016: MTH 314 - Matrix Algebra with Applications (Section 001) [Syllabus] [Course Page]
  Problem-solving and applications in matrix algebra for scientists and engineers. Vectors, matrices, linear transformations, inner products, dimension, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Applications to systems of equations and to geometry.

• Fall 2016: MTH 299 - Transitions to Higher Mathematics (Section 001) [Syllabus]
  Introduction to mathematical reasoning, basic logic, set theory, integers, natural numbers and induction, basic number theory, real numbers, limits, sequences, series.

• Spring 2015: MTH 299 - Transitions to Higher Mathematics (2 Sections)
  Introduction to mathematical reasoning, basic logic, set theory, integers, natural numbers and induction, basic number theory, real numbers, limits, sequences, series.

• Spring 2014: MTH 124 - Survey of Calculus I (2 Sections)
  Study of limits, continuous functions, derivatives, integrals and their applications.

• Guest Lecturing
  • Compressive Sensing and Big Data (MTH 995, Spring 2015, Graduate course)
  • Introduction to Signal Processing (ECE 366, Spring 2015, Electrical Engineering course)

Other Mentoring Activities

• SURIEM 2016: Mathematics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) [Web Page]
  Summer 2016, Michigan State University - Lead Mentor
  (a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program)
  Mentored a group of four students on a project investigating improved accuracy of Fourier reconstructions (by incorporating edge information) with applications to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

• National Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (NREUP) [Web Page]
  Summer 2014, Michigan State University - Invited Lecturer
  (part of the MAA’s Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement (SUMMA) program)
  Conducted lecture and computer lab sessions on numerical methods for ODEs for a group of five students working on projects involving modeling cancer and modeling competing car companies using deterministic and stochastic differential equations.

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
  Summer 2012 and 2013, California Institute of Technology - Mentor
  Mentored a student each summer on projects developing fast and accurate numerical methods for solving computational electromagnetics problems.