Importance of teaching

While many graduate school research positions do not require teaching, I am grateful that my position did. When you teach, you take a complicated topic, build it up from its fundamentals to a non-expert. This skill is exactly what happens when you take your research or project and explain it to a collaborator or even a conference talk attendee. It is incredibly transferable. When I presented my work to my company at the end of my summer internship, one of the managers asked if I taught in graduate school, because he could tell. Technical chops are important, but communication is even more important. And don’t get me started on the importance of teaching the humanities, which is also essential for this.

Also, don’t forget the confidence boost! It was nice to be able to take a break from hitting walls in research by prepping for calculus lessons and remembering that I do indeed know mathematics. When I was developing a measure-theoretic framework for functional data techniques and my mathematical background was in abstract algebra and combinatorics (very unrelated), taking a step back and working out examples of Lagrange multipliers for my students felt like deflecting punches as Neo from The Matrix. :)

Teaching

While in graduate school at Auburn University, I taught the following courses:

  • Spring 2026: MATH 1690, Calculus with Business Applications II (instructor of record)
  • Fall 2025: MATH 2630, Calculus III (recitation leader)
  • Fall 2024: MATH 1620, Calculus II (recitation leader)
  • Fall 2023: MATH 1690, Calculus with Business Applications II (instructor of record)

Tutoring

I have three years of experience as a tutor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Murray State, and I privately tutored 6 students at Auburn in the following classes:

  • STAT 3600: Probability and Statistics I
  • MATH 2650: Linear Differential Equations
  • MATH 1690: Calculus with Business Applications II
  • MATH 1610: Calculus I
  • MATH 1000: College Algebra