Teaching & Mentoring
Teaching
Instructor of Record—"Psychology Fundamentals", Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI, Summer 2021
- Designed content structure, assignments, discussions, exams, and grading metrics
- Gave 4.5-hour weekly lectures to 50 undergraduates on learning, memory, thought, language, intelligence, motivation, emotion, and development
- Lecture recordings: Learning · Memory · Thought, Language & Intelligence · Motivation & Emotion · Development
Social Sciences Instructional Fellow—School of Social Sciences, UCI, Summer 2020
- Trained in online teaching through UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
- Assisted faculty in transitioning to emergency remote teaching
Teaching Assistant—"Human, Place and Space", Department of Geography, UCSB, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Neuromatch Academy Teaching Assistant—Computational Neuroscience, Remote, Summer 2020
Data Science Instructor—Guided Projects, Coursera, Aug 2020 – Feb 2022
Curriculum Development
- "Building Your Teaching Style"—a website for college TAs/Instructors, UCSB, 2019
- "Sex Differences in Navigation from a Human Geographer's Perspective"—an interdisciplinary teaching video for undergraduate psychology, neuroscience, geography, and anthropology courses, UCSB, 2020
Mentoring
HMS / MGH / McLean (2022 – Present)
- Applied Neuroimaging Statistics Laboratory: 1 research data manager (Fall 2024 – Present)
- Harvard University Peer Coaching Initiative (HUPCI): 1 clinical research coordinator (Fall 2024 – Present)
- MIND Data Science Lab: 2 graduate research interns, 1 high school student intern (Summer 2022 – Summer 2024)
UCI (2019 – 2022)
- Spatial Neuroscience Lab: ~2 undergraduate student researchers/year
- Graduate InterConnect (GIC) Program: 18 first-year international graduate students (2021 – 2022)
- Cascading Mentorship Program: 6 Cognitive Sciences Ph.D. students (2021 – 2022)
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) Summer Journal Club: 4 high school students (Summer 2020)
- Irvine Brain Bee: 3 high school students (Winter 2020)
UCSB (2017 – 2019)
- Spatial Neuroscience Lab: ~1 undergraduate student researcher/year
- Summer Research Mentorship Program: 1 high school student (Summer 2018)
- Women in STEM Mentorship Program: 1 undergraduate student (2017 – 2018)
Other
- The Social Scientist: virtual one-on-one STEM mentorship (Summer 2022 – Present)
- Neuromatch Academy: Computational Neuroscience Project Mentor, 27 graduate students (Summer 2022, 2023)
- Científico Latino Graduate Student Mentorship Initiative: 1 underrepresented undergraduate student (Fall 2020)