Teaching
Outside of research, my greatest passion is certainly teaching: I find it rewarding to help students gain confidence with new skills and grow, and that moment where a concept suddenly clicks into place never gets old!
At Princeton, I have TA'd for Astronomy 204 (taught by Josh Winn), an introduction to astrophysics geared toward students with some STEM background in the Spring 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters. Most recently, I also served as a TA for Astronomy 207 (taught by Jenny Greene), a course introducing the basics of observational astronomy to students with no prior experience emphasizing hands-on work with real data, in its inaugural offering in Spring 2025.
Outside of courses within the university, I am heavily involved in the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) — as a teaching fellow since 2023, I have led weekly after-school enrichment sessions for students at Ewing High School on subjects ranging from game theory and computer programming to ethics and psychology. I have also tutored struggling students one-on-one in math and physics through the program. Besides PUPP, I have additionally been involved with Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative, where I helped design assignments, exams, and lab activities for an introductory math course in the Fall 2024 semester, as well as an introduction to astronomy course in the Spring 2025 semester.
Prior to moving to Princeton, as an undergraduate at Berkeley, I was a student instructor for Astronomy C10 (taught by Alex Filippenko), an introduction to astronomy geared toward students with no prior science background, in the Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 semesters. Additionally, I participated extensively in the Democratic Education at Cal (DeCal) program, which allows students to design and teach their own seminars on a topic of their choice. From Spring 2019 through Spring 2020, I co-facilitated the "Transition to Upper Division Mathematics" course, which aimed to assist students in navigating the shift from calculation toward abstraction. I also co-developed (with my friend Charlie Cummings) a completely new course, "From Quasars to Quarks," which surveyed physics over ~60 orders of magnitude in length scales to prepare students early in their physics careers for advanced coursework and research.