Teaching

Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1.5

Undergraduate course, Northwestern University, 2020

As the main TA of this course, I helped the logistics and operations of the course by handling all the grading as well as supporting students via office hours. The most rewarding aspect of this course was getting to help students one-on-one who are just getting started in their Computer Science education. In a virtual year due to the pandemic, helping students further connected me to campus and to people in my field.

Mentoring for Explore CS Research Program

Mentorship, University of Michigan, 2019

For the winter semester of 2020, I helped mentor two undergraduate students from the University of Michigan as part of the “Explore Computer Science Research” program that aims to improve diversity in CS research. Along with Prof. Sindhu Kutty (University of Michigan), I helped these students explore fairness in Machine Learning (ML) and how fair are recidivism prediction instruments. I also:

Recommender System Workshop at RIIAA 2019

Workshop, UNAM, C3, 2019

In RIIAA 2019, I instructed (primarily in Spanish) a summer school workshop on Recommender Systems, focusing on Machine Learning techniques and algorithm implementations. I also aided in the reviewing process for selecting the posters that would be accepted in the student poster competition.

Introduction to Machine Learning

Undergraduate course, University of Michigan, 2019

During my last semester as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, I was the lead instructional aide for the Introduction to Machine Learning (EECS 445) course. In addition to helping the instructor supervise the teaching staff and manage logistic planning, I sided with planning course content, writing assignments, designing exams, and overall logistic support. I also:

• lead a weekly discussion session and office hours where I taught students about Machine Learning,
• took a lead role in designing a project using Support Vector Machines for sentiment analysis, and
• helped design and program an image recognition project with Convolutional Neural Networks