I am an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Current teaching:

  • DS 150 Computing in Python: Fundamentals and Procedural Programming
  • DS 740 Data Mining & Machine Learning

Current research interests:

  • Network Science and Graph Neural Networks
  • Deep learning
  • Mechanistic Interpretability

Teaching philosophy TLDR:

  • Develop the habit of learning from first principles
  • Motivate everything
  • Well motivated and engaging active learning problem sets with appropriate scaffolding (TILT)
  • Students build things that they are passionate about through mini-projects and mini-hackathons
  • Teaching stack: Mentimeter, Manim, Nbgrader, markdown2canvas, codeshare