Teaching and Mentoring Experience

My passion for teaching and mentoring students has led me to seek out multiple opportunities to do so during my time at Stanford.

During the summer of 2019, I was a technical mentor for the Stanford Data Science for Social Good summer program. I worked with the two other technical mentors to develop trainings (repo) and coordinate collaborations and mentor students on projects with the Stanford Blood Center (on forecasting platelet use) and Veteran’s Health Administration (on assessing bias of an opiate prediction tool).

I have been a teaching assistant twice and worked on course development for BIOMEDIN 214: Representations and Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology (2016, 2017) and the Stanford ADVANCE Summer program Introduction to R Course (repo) for incoming biology graduate students (2020, 2021). I also had the opportunity to shadow a Computer Science professor at Foothill Community College through the Stanford Preparing Future Professors program. For all of these courses, I developed and gave one or two lectures per quarter.

Additonally, I have had the opportunity to mentor students at the high school, college, and graduate school levels. I tutored high school students throught the East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring (EPATT) Program. I also mentored a community college graduate student through the Inclusive Mentoring in Data Science program and mentored two undergraduate students on my research projects. Finally, I have acted as mentor to many first year graduate students through Biosciences programs, advising on rotations, coursework, and transition to graduate school, as well as helping students prepare fellowship applications.