Teaching Philosophy

My goal as a teacher is to create an engaging, hands-on learning environment that fosters students’ enthusiasm for exploring relevant topics while equipping them with the tools they need to approach real-life problems. My teaching philosophy is rooted in a deep passion for the content I teach and a commitment to spreading that enthusiasm with students I teach. I believe that when students sense their instructor’s genuine excitement for a subject, they are more likely to engage deeply with the material themselves. I strive to create an interactive learning environment that nurtures this curiosity and provides methods for students to overcome potential obstacles.


Teaching Experiences

AEDE 6130 Applied Quantitative Methods III

Lab instructor: Spring 2024

Course description This course is a master level course which covers topics from data exploration and visualization to advanced machine learning techniques such as model selection and regularization for high dimensional data, supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods.

AEDE 4310 Environmental and Natural Resources Economics

Guest lecture: Fall 2023, 2024

Course description This course is a undergraduate level for around 70 students. My guest lecture is on the topic of benefit-cost-anlysis. The covered materials include the evaluation criteria for decision making, the linkage on equimarginal principals, and discussions of pros and cons for benefit-cost-analysis.