Mentoring & Teaching

Mentoring

Research Opportunities

Harvard-affiliated students interested in computational projects related to multimodal neuroimaging, machine learning, aging, and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are welcome to reach out. I occasionally mentor student research projects within the ANSR Lab, depending on project fit and availability. Current undergraduate research opportunities may also be listed through the Kempner Institute.

Mentoring Experience

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)

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