Teaching
CSE 100: Advanced Data Structures
Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Debashis Sahoo
📅 Spring 2025
📌Responsibilities:
- Appointed as a Teaching Assistant for the Advanced Data Structures undergraduate course. Will lead 2-4 discussion sessions or lab sessions per week, assisting students with course material, and facilitating active learning.
- Responsible for conducting two office hours per week, providing individual and group tutoring, and actively engaging with students via Piazza for queries and discussions.
- Evaluating assignments, quizzes, and exams will be part of the role, with a focus on grading 10 papers per student and maintaining student records to ensure fair assessment and timely feedback.
- Will attend weekly supervisor meetings (2 hours per week), proctor examinations, and assist with additional academic tasks such as quiz preparation and administrative duties.
DSC 180AB: Data Science Capstone
Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Umesh Bellur
📅 Fall 2024, Winter 2025
📌Responsibilities:
- Appointed as a Teaching Assistant for a two-quarter undergraduate capstone project course, managing six groups of approximately ten students each. Assigned to domains such as theoretical foundations, language models, and applied data science.
- Responsible for conducting office hours, grading participation assignments, code checkpoints, final code submission, and addressing coding or methodological questions in projects related to ML model optimization, NLP, Data Science, and Graph ML.
- Assisting the following groups: Domain Descriptions
- A15: Neural Network Compression with Error Guarantees
- B01: GenAI for Good
- B02: NLP Credit Score Development
- B10: Hunting for Ghost Particles: Analyzing Time Series Data produced by Semiconductor Detectors
- B11: Learning How to Make a Better Solar Cell using Molecular Graphs
- B12: Graph ML for Chip Profiling
ECE 65: Components and Circuits Laboratory
Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Saharnaz Baghdadchi
📅 Spring 2024
📌Responsibilities:
- Appointed as a Teaching Assistant for a lab-based undergraduate course focused on learning outcomes related to Op-amp circuits, Diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, and the analysis of these circuits. Additionally, taught students how to use software like LTSpice and PSpice.
- Facilitated weekly discussion sessions lasting one hour and conducted lab sessions for two sections, each lasting three hours per week, instructing a total of 60 students.
- Responsible for holding office hours for two hours twice a week and evaluating lab work, midterm exams, and final exams for over 150 students.