Teaching/Mentorship/Outreach
Courses Supported as Technical Instructor (2022-)
- 8.01 (F22 L03 - Joe Formaggio [95 students], F22 L04 - Mohamed Abdelhafez [109 students], F22 L07 - Or Hen [62 students], F23 L03 - Kiyoshi Masui [104 students], F23 L04 - Joseph Formaggio [97 students], F23 L07 - Marin Soljacic [84 students], F24 L03 - Krishna Rajagopal [109 students], F24 L04 - Marin Soljacic [53 students], F25 L04 - Kevin Burdge [88 students], F25 L07 - Carey Witkov [98 students])
- 8.02 (S23 L07 - Joe Checkelsky [83 students], S23 L08 - Peter Dourmashkin [68 students], S24 L03 - Paola Rebusco [106 students], S24 L04 - Peter Dourmashkin [95 students], S25 L07 - Christina Eilers [98 students], S25 L08 - Joe Formaggio [62 students])
- 8.012 (F22 - Lina Necib)
- 8.022 (S23 - Tracy Slatyer, S25 - Gian-Michele Innocenti)
- 8.03 (F23 - Andrew Vanderburg, F24 - Andrew Vanderburg, F25 - Riccardo Comin)
Advising / Formal Mentorship
- Job-shadowing host (Fall 2025) for Morten Nissen, instrument maker/curator from Europa-Universität Flensburg
- Mentor (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022) in the Physics Mentoring Program for 8.01/8.02
- Mentor (IAP 2025) in the Physics Directed Reading Program for Jason Ng on the topic of differential geometry
- Mentor (IAP 2024) in the Physics Directed Reading Program for Atticus Wang on the topic of geometric quantization and for Yongao Hu on the topic of principal G-bundles (aka Lectures on Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics).
- Mentor (IAP 2023) in the Physics Directed Reading Program for Brian Shi on the topic of Quantum Optics (coherent and squeezed states)
- Completed 8.S998 Pedagogy and Practice evidence-based mentor training course
- Traditional Associate Advisor (2020-2021) for 13 first years alongside Jocelyn Heywood - Senior Staff Associate, Advising and Academic Performance, OFY
- Mentor (2020) for Edgerton Center Engineering Design Workshop
(helped a team build muon detector from scratch)
- Traditional Associate Advisor (2019-2020) for 4 first years alongside Jesse Thaler - Professor of Physics; Director, IAIFI
- Seminar Associate Advisor (2018-2019) for 12 first years in the Edgerton Center Engineering, Art, and Science seminar alongside the well-known Ed Moriarty; K-12 Maker Team Leader (and my first year advisor) Diane Brancazio; and fellow associate advisor Talia Blum
Demonstration Shows
- AAPT Summer Conference, Grand Hyatt DC, 2025
- AAPT Summer Conference, Harvard Sanders Theater, 2024
- Cambridge Science Festival, 2023-2025
- Belmont After School Enrichment Collaborative STEM Camp, 2025
- MIT Physics Pre-Orientation Program, 2022-2025
- MIT Family Weekend, 2024
- MIT Campus Preview Weekend, 2024
- MIT Physics Staff Show, 2023
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Invited guest presenter/collaborator for Elizabeth Cavicchi's class, EC.050 Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past (2023-)
- Student Project Lab (4-409) Assistant Shop Manager (2019-2021)
- Maintained a makerspace to facilitate a community of student-engineers from middle schoolers through professional alumni accessibly sharing advice on personal, class, and research projects
- Recruited and scheduled 12 mentors to provide monitored access to students in addition to weekly hours in which I held a safety orientation for new users
- Scheduled and conducted weekly training workshops on design for and operation of digital fabrication tools (3D printers, laser cutter, vinyl cutter) as well as drill presses, saws, a glass fusing kiln, a sewing machine, soldering tools, and/or electronics test equipment
- Developed and co-taught a month-long virtual class on digital fabrication of pinball machines (assembled 24 108-piece kits, produced 231 student-designed parts)
- Assessed the need for ordering and organizing tools, materials, and storage in addition to maintenance, repair, planning, and mentoring activities
- Volunteer Makerlodge Mentor (2018-2019)
