TA, graduate course, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2018
Teaching assistant for a graduate level course on continuous optimization for students in Electrical Engineering. Topics included first- and second-order optimization algorithms, their convergence, and rates of convergence.
TA, graduate topics course, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2017
Teaching assistant for a graduate level topics course on convex analysis. I guided a weekly study group where students solved problems designed to sharpen their convex analysis skills.
TA, undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2016
Teaching assistant for third year course on numerical analysis. Topics included numerical solvers for ODEs and PDEs, root finding algorithms, and first- and second-order optimization algorithms. Among other duties, I taught a weekly lab introducing fundamentals of coding for students who had not coded before.
TA, undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2015
Teaching assistant for first year linear algebra, covering fundamentals of linear algebra.
TA, undergraduate course, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 2015
Teaching assistant for first year calculus, mainly on techniques of integration and series.
Private guitar lessons, Long & McQuade, Edmonton, Alberta, 2010
Before grad school, I taught private guitar lessons for many years. I tailored lessons to each student’s ability and interests, teaching material ranging anywhere from beginning acoustic guitar, to classical pedagogy, to jazz guitar.