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Teaching
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Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant for Computational
Models of Learning: Duties included guest lecturing and assisting
students with projects.
AI Seminar Lecturer: I presented many talks
in the AI Seminar coordinated by Dr. Vasant
Honavar.
Bioinformatics Seminar Lecturer:
I presented in the Bioinformatics Seminar coordinated
by Dr. Vasant Honavar and Dr. Drena Dobbs.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: I taught laboratory
sections of “Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, and Linear
Algebra” courses. Duties included lecturing and grading of assignments
and projects.
Teaching Statement
My teaching goal is to motivate students to seek and understand knowledge. This includes broadening the students' knowledge base, improving their abilities to obtain knowledge, and helping them use this new knowledge to prepare for future careers. My instruction will emphasize on developing independent thinking and improving problem-solving abilities. I will motivate students to search and understand answers instead of providing answers to memorize. I will teach students the difference between knowing the answer versus understanding the answer. My instructions will also aim at cultivating students' abilities to share ideas, to learn from colleagues, and to collaborate in teamwork. My teaching will give students the opportunity to have good ideas, but just as important my guidance will show them how to clearly and convincingly communicate their ideas. To build such an environment group interaction and class participation will be an important part of my classroom. I will combine real-world applications with the instructions of theories and algorithms. My research experience in both the academia and industrial environment along with state-of-the-art technologies will be used as application examples.
While completing my Ph.D. at Iowa State University, I had the privilege to mentor, supervise, and collaborate with first and second year graduate students and senior level undergraduate students. My responsibilities included teaching the students how to establish a research project, how to solve technical problems, and how to communicate their results to an appropriate audience. I encouraged the students to work both independently and in groups. This one-on-one interaction proved very valuable to both the students and me. I want my classroom to be as close to a one-on-one and mentoring style as possible. This includes interactions between students and between the students and the Professor.
During my graduate and undergraduate experience, I had the opportunity to be a teaching assistant for several courses. At the graduate level, I was a teaching assistant for the graduate course Computational Models of Learning. My responsibilities included lecturing and conducting the class in the Professors absence and assisting students on projects and understanding the material. The undergraduate courses I have assisted in include Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, and Linear Algebra. My major responsibilities included correcting and grading papers and homework assignments, holding office hours, and leading lab sessions. This experience served as a good opportunity to interact with students and with professors. It gave me the opportunity to evaluate students work and to give and receive feedback from the students. It gave me an up-close prospective on how Professors evaluate students.
I can immediately contribute to education in the general fields of computer science, mathematics, and bioinformatics at both the graduate and undergraduate level. I have a strong interest in teaching the following courses: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Introduction to Bioinformatics, Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics, Algorithms for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Mathematics for Biologists, Design and Analysis of Data Structures for Biologists, and Computational Structure in Biology.
Teaching is a very unique opportunity. Teaching is a learning experience, both for the student and the teacher. I have an enthusiasm for learning. I am a fanatic of knowledge. I enjoy watching knowledge grow; I pursue knowledge to be able to advance it. In the fields of Computer Science and Bioinformatics knowledge is growing every day. I love the feeling of grasping a new idea or thought. I want to be able to pass along this feeling. I want to be able to enjoy watching students grasping new ideas. I look forward to the opportunity to teach students and have them teach me how to become a better teacher. I want to be part of this continual cycle of teaching and learning. I want to be a leader in advancing knowledge.
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