Mentoring and Teaching Experience
Mentoring
I designed multiple side projects for undergraduates during both PhD and post-doctoral career, and supervised five students leading to successful completion of projects.
Teaching
As a teaching assistant, I consider myself as a facilitator who provide students opportunities to synthesize scientific ideas and to help them to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills using the scientific process and examples from primary literature.
Teaching Awards
List of courses I taught at UIUC:
IB 100/101 : Biological Sciences – Spring 2009
Course instructor: Ed Dole
IB 204 : Genetics – Fall 2008*, Fall 2009*
Course instructor: Drs. Ray Ming and Arthur Zangerl
IB 151: Organismal and Evolutionary Biology – Fall 2007*, Spring 2008*, 2012*, 2013.
Course instructor: Dr. Kevin Dixon
IB 105: Environmental Biology - Spring 2007
Course Instructor: Dr. Carla Cáceres
IB 302 : Evolution Fall 2010 *
Course Instructor: Drs. Allison Bell and Stewart Berlocher
IB 451: Conservation Biology - Spring 2010, Graduate level course
Course Instructor : Dr. Ken Paige
IB 270 – Evolution and molecules of cells – IB honors course
Course instructor – Dr. Charlie Whitfield
* Listed as Excellent teacher by students
Course at Kansas State University:
Entom 300: Economic Entomology - Spring 2006
Course Instructor: Dr. David Margolies
Mentoring
I designed multiple side projects for undergraduates during both PhD and post-doctoral career, and supervised five students leading to successful completion of projects.
Teaching
As a teaching assistant, I consider myself as a facilitator who provide students opportunities to synthesize scientific ideas and to help them to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills using the scientific process and examples from primary literature.
- Taught general biology, genetics, recombinant DNA techniques lab, evolution and conservation biology courses.
Teaching Awards
- Outstanding Teaching Award 2011
- Ranked as excellent teacher by students during multiple semesters.
List of courses I taught at UIUC:
IB 100/101 : Biological Sciences – Spring 2009
Course instructor: Ed Dole
IB 204 : Genetics – Fall 2008*, Fall 2009*
Course instructor: Drs. Ray Ming and Arthur Zangerl
IB 151: Organismal and Evolutionary Biology – Fall 2007*, Spring 2008*, 2012*, 2013.
Course instructor: Dr. Kevin Dixon
IB 105: Environmental Biology - Spring 2007
Course Instructor: Dr. Carla Cáceres
IB 302 : Evolution Fall 2010 *
Course Instructor: Drs. Allison Bell and Stewart Berlocher
IB 451: Conservation Biology - Spring 2010, Graduate level course
Course Instructor : Dr. Ken Paige
IB 270 – Evolution and molecules of cells – IB honors course
Course instructor – Dr. Charlie Whitfield
* Listed as Excellent teacher by students
Course at Kansas State University:
Entom 300: Economic Entomology - Spring 2006
Course Instructor: Dr. David Margolies