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