Teaching Philosophy
A major component of my teaching philosophy is making physics courses more accessible to students. In 2018, I participated in inquiry driven course development through the Institute of Scientist and Engineer Educators Professional Development Program. This training involved a series of workshops to learn how to incorporate pedagogical methods such as active learning and inquiry based teaching methods into the classroom.The specific goal of redesigning the lab was to make the topic and techniques of the lecture on identifying exoplanets from observational data and modeling the results more accessible to non-major students.
Mentoring
Being a research mentor to students is a passion and priority of mine. Since 2018, I have supervised a number of undergraduate students in research projects, including a now published paper on implementing machine learning algorithms to identify globular clusters in analogue Rubin Observatory data .
