Teaching

Served as a Teaching Assistant for UCSD's introductory programming course, one of the largest undergraduate courses in the department. The course introduces students to programming concepts and computational thinking using Python.

• Independently taught the full class of 200+ students when the instructor was unavailable — planned and delivered a complete lecture covering course material
• Led weekly discussion sections, held office hours, designed and graded assignments and exams
• Mentored and coordinated with other TAs in the course.

TA for the digital systems lab course, a hands-on course where students design and implement digital circuits using FPGAs and hardware description languages. Directly relevant to my own research in FPGA-accelerated bioinformatics.

• Facilitated weekly lab sessions, helping students debug Verilog/VHDL designs and understand FPGA toolchains
• Held office hours, graded lab reports and projects, provided individualized feedback on hardware designs
• Supported a class of 70+ students across multiple lab sections