Teaching

Teaching assistant

I have assisted with teaching introductory and intermediate statistics classes to over 200 students at UC Irvine. My work involved creating course material (formative and summative assessments) and teaching students during weekly discussion sessions, office hours and in online forums (e.g. Piazza).

My commitment to teaching was recognized with a honorary mention for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award by the Department of Statistics in 2020.

Course code	Course name	Academic Term
STATS 8	Introduction to Biological Statistics	Fall 2021
STATS 68	Statistical Computing and Exploratory Data Analysis	Spring 2021
STATS 67	Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science	Winter 2021 Summer, Winter, Fall 2020
STATS 7	Basic Statistics	Spring 2020

Scientific communication

Every modern individual must develop the skills to understand and recognize good scientific communication. Students in STEM also need to learn how to communicate effectively so that they can make an impact with their work. Practicing communication also improves one’s ability to formalize and develop their ideas.

I have created and taught workshops on scientific writing for undergraduate students in statistics, data science, informatics and computer science, and for graduate statistics students. I look forward to work more on this!

Audience	Dates	Workshop Material
Undergraduate research program in biostatistics (ISI-BUDS)	Jul 22, 2024 Aug 3, 2023	Slides Supporting material
Undergraduate honors class - informatics, computer science and data science majors	May 1 and 3, 2024	Slides (part 1) Slides (part 2)
Graduate students in statistics	Jun 8, 2023	Slides on Quarto Documents

Gamification

Fun learning activities can be especially engaging and memorable¹². I have started to create game-based activities for teaching Bayesian statistics and assessing their effectiveness (more about this under Research/Statistics Education). Here you can find links to the resources I created. If you are interested to work more on this with me, please reach out!

See you at the Posterior Line! Learning Bayesian statistics with an online racing game

• Material and Video

Other resources

• More games and game-based learning activities for teaching statistics by Dr. Shonda Kuiper and Dr. Rodney X. Sturdivant.

Footnotes

1. Lesser, Lawrence M., Dennis K. Pearl, and John J. Weber III. “Assessing fun items’ effectiveness in increasing learning of college introductory statistics students: Results of a randomized experiment.” Journal of Statistics Education 24.2 (2016): 54-62.

2. Kuiper, Shonda, and Rodney X. Sturdivant. “Using online game-based simulations to strengthen students’ understanding of practical statistical issues in real-world data analysis.” The American Statistician 69.4 (2015): 354-361.