teaching & service

Graduate Teaching Assistant - UMD College Park

CMSC 434: Human-Computer Interactions (Fall 2023 - Present)

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the CS department’s upper-level undergraduate HCI course, I provide iterative, one-on-one feedback to student teams developing interactive app prototypes following the HCI Lifecycle. I collaborate with the course instructor to design new problem contexts and exam questions, guide students in applying user-centered design principles, and support their end-to-end project development process.

I also co-developed a new project context focused on personal budgeting and financial management, which offers students a realistic and socially relevant design challenge that complements the existing project options. Additionally, I contributed to the development of a new AI-centered lecture series introduced in Fall 2025, expanding the course’s coverage to include emerging topics in human-AI interactions.

Guest Lecturer - UMD College Park

ENAE 380: Flight Software Systems (Fall 2024)

I delivered a guest lecture introducing the fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning (RL), including the Markov Decision Process (MDP) framework, policy optimization, and reward-based learning. The session incorporated interactive examples using Mario gameplay to illustrate state transitions, exploration–exploitation tradeoffs, and agent training dynamics in a familiar environment. I designed and implemented an interactive Google Colab assignment that allowed students to experiment with different object placements to observe their impact on the optimal policy of the model.