Teaching, Mentoring, and Outreach

I am passionate about spreading science and knowledge about my research and mentoring younger students and scientists. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

Mentoring at Shalek Lab

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Ankit Basak, Chemistry graduate Student
  • Sam Lizotte, Ragon Institute RISE summer intern, high school student from Brockton High
  • School - 2024
  • Sarish Ray, Ragon Institute RISE summer intern, undergraduate student from UMass-Amherst - 2024
  • Amy Huang, rotation student - 2024
  • Eric Gai, rotation student - 2023
  • Hannah Ramcharan, rotation student - 2022

Teaching Assistant

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2022

  • Modern Biostatistics(7.093)
  • Modern Computational Biology (7.094).

Designed and led weekly recitations and office hours, and worked with instructors to design course materials and graded problem sets and exams

MIT Spark program teaching volunteer

Cambridge, MA, 2022

  • Worked with other graduate students to develop a two-part course on immunology for 30+ local 7th and 8th grade students

Trainer, HCA Asia Single-Cell Omics Workshop

Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024

  • Designed teaching materials, held lectures and labs for computational training sessions on single-cell analysis for a week-long workshop catering to over 60 participants across Asia
  • Online resources can be found in this repo

Executive board, CSB Application Assistance Program (CSBAAP)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2021-2022

  • Helped establish the application assistance program for the Computational and Systems Biology PhD program at MIT. Secured Grad Student Experience Grant from Office of Graduate Education at MIT to kick-start the first year of the program.

Grutor (= grader + tutor, similar to TA)

Harvey Mudd College

  • CS158 (Machine Learning)
  • CS133 (Database Systems)
  • CS60 (Principles of Computer Science)
  • CS5 “black” (Intro to CS)
  • MCB118b (Introduction to Computational Biology)

Biology Academic Excellence (AE) Program Facilitator

Harvey Mudd College

Developed weekly workshops to help students improve their understanding of concepts in the core biology courses and teach problem solving skills.