I graduated from Seattle University with a double major in mathematics and computer science, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2017. I am currently an assistant professor who is responsible for teaching classes and doing research. I have taught students formally at the college level for both mathematics and computer science and tutored students at the college level for both mathematics and computer science.

While a graduate student at Dartmouth, I was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher award. I have continued to strive to have a high-quality teaching experience for students in all of my classes. Dartmouth also requires all graduate students to study pedagogy in an intensive teaching seminar before permitting them to teach. I have continued to find different ways to connect with student during teaching by attending a workshop by The Academy of Inquiry-Based Learning on how to increase student engagement and performance in the classroom.

As a tutor, my goal is to have students understand the principles behind a problem, so that given a small variation of the problem they can find the solution though a logical process. Additionally in understanding the principles behind a problem, student then can decompose much harder problems into several smaller known problems and compete it quickly.

Mathematics and Computer Science both require a deep understand of logic and critical thinking and require more than just computation. The skills learned in these classes are applicable to many other disciplines.