Teaching, Mentoring, and Community Engagement
Teaching
University of Utah
- Instructor, Statistical and Computational Methods (ASTR/PHYS 7730, grad course), Spring 2024, 2025
- Instructor, Introduction to Cosmology (ASTR/PHYS 4080, undergrad upper-level), Fall 2022, 2023, 2024
Rutgers University
- Mentor, Byrne First-Year Seminar, Fall 2020
- Remote Guest Lecturer, Research Methods in Astrophysics (undergrad upper-level), Yale, Fall 2020
University of Pittsburgh
- Organizer, Data Science Workshop, Fall 2018
- Teacher, LSST DESC Dark Energy School VIII, Spring 2018
- Guest Lecturer, Galactic & Extragalactic Astronomy (grad course), Spring 2018
- Guest Lecturer, Basics of Space Flight (undergrad lower-level), Spring 2017
- Guest Lecturer, Solar System and Exoplanets (undergrad lower-level), Spring 2017
- Teacher, Intermediate Python Tutorials, Spring 2017
Stanford University
- Organizer & Lecturer, KIPAC Computing Boot Camp, Fall 2015
- Guest Lecturer, Practical Computing for Scientists (undergrad lower-level), Spring 2014 and Spring 2015
- Head Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer, Electricity and Optics (undergrad lower-level), Winter 2013
- Teaching Assistant, Computational Physics (undergrad upper-level), Fall 2012
- Teaching Assistant, Electricity and Optics (undergrad lower-level), Winter 2011
Mentoring
University of Utah
My research group currently consists of two postdocs, one Ph.D. student, and three undergraduate students. Alumni of my research group include:
- Abigail Coker (U of Utah, M.S. Physics 2023)
University of Pittsburgh & Rutgers University
I co-advised the following then-Ph.D. students when I was at University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers University:
- Ethan Nadler (Stanford PhD '21, with Risa Wechsler), currently postdoc at Carnegie Obs./USC
- Kuan Wang (Pitt PhD '21, with Andrew Zentner), currently postdoc at U of Michigan
- Catherine Fielder (Pitt PhD '22, with Jeff Newman and Andrew Zentner), currently postdoc at Steward Obs./U of Arizona
Stanford University
I co-advised the following then-undergraduate students with Risa Wechsler when I was at Stanford University:
- Benjamin Lehmann (Stanford B.S. '15), currently PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz
- Marc Williamson (Stanford B.S. '15), currently PhD candidate at New York University
- Vincent Su (Stanford B.S. '16), currently PhD candidate at UC Berkeley
Community Engagement
- Invited Speaker, St. George Astronomy Group, Mar 2024
- Invited Speaker, Salt Lake Oasis, Oct 2023
- Interviewee, LGBTQIA+ in Astronomy, IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach, Oct 2023
- Invited Speaker, First Friday Astronomy, Boise State Physics, Oct 2023
- Invited Panelist, KIPAC Public Lecture: The next decade of discovery with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, KIPAC/Stanford, Sep 2023
- Invited Guest, The Astro Show, Wyoming Stargazing, Dec 2022
- Interviewee, Queer Experiences in Astronomy, JustSpace Alliance, Jun 2022
- Panelist, Out in Astronomy, American Astronomy Society (AAS) and U of Utah, Mar 2022
- Invited Speaker, First Friday Astronomy, Boise State Physics, Oct 2021
- Invited Speaker, New Jersey Astronomical Association General Meeting, May 2021
- Invited Speaker, Friends of Rutgers Astronomy, Rutgers Univerity, Jan 2021
- Invited Speaker, Astronomy on Tap – Edinburgh, Fall 2018
- Speaker, Astronomy on Tap – Pittsburgh, Fall 2017
- Invited Speaker, Allegheny Observatory Public Lecture, Spring 2017
- Volunteer, KIPAC Open House, 2013–2015
- Teacher, Stanford ESP Splash! Program, 2010–2014