University Teaching Experience

To undergraduates, UCI, UCSB, and Dartmouth College, 2021


Instructor of Record, “Psychology Fundamentals”
Department of Cognitive Sciences, UCI, Summer 2021

  • Designed the content structure, assignments, discussions, exams, grading metrics, and supervise TA activities
  • Gave accumulated 4.5 h-long weekly lectures to 50 undergraduate students on in-depth general psychology topics, including learning, memory, thought, language, intelligence, motivation, emotion, and development. (Lectures were publicly available on YouTube. Click the link and check it out!)


Social Sciences Instructional Fellow
School of Social Sciences, UCI, Summer 2020

  • Trained in online teaching through UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
  • Assisted 1 instructor in School of Social Sciences in addressing some of the challenges in transitioning to emergency remote teaching


Teaching Assistant, “Human, Place and Space”
UCSB, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018

  • Prepared and delivered interactive lectures that blended scholarly research, critical thinking exercises, and global trend
  • Led structured group discussions of over 70 students, advised diverse student population on assignments, helped students grasp challenging course material


Teaching Assistant, “Cognition”
Dartmouth College, Spring 2016

  • Advised diverse student population on assignments, helped students grasp challenging course material
  • Assisted guest lecturer with conducting hypnosis on volunteered students in class