Teaching Award

Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award

Awarded the Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2026 in recognition of sustained excellence in teaching, curriculum design, and student mentorship in the College.

Course Instructor

CIS 5590: Human-AI Interaction new course development

Taught both as a design studio and a discussion course; students grapple with important questions about human-centered AI such as how to design for uncertainty, failure, ethics, and interpretability. Students also explore design methods in this less deterministic design setting.

Fall, Temple University

CIS 3755: Introduction to Information Visualization new course development

A course that focuses on giving students the necessary skills to ask and answer questions with data. Course projects focus on visualizing rural and urban data in and around Philadelphia. Taught as a design studio and featuring active learning and flipped classroom.

Spring, Temple University

CIS 4282/9182: Undergraduate Research

This is an opportunity for students to work on their own research under my guidance. Students meet with me weekly to get feedback on their research and plan their next steps. Topics areas broadly include human-computer interaction, natural language processing, social computing, creativity, and learning sciences.

Every semester, Temple University

Previous Courses

CIS 4496 Projects in Data Science redesigned course

Previously taught course focused on project-based work in data science.

Temple University

ITCS 6177 System Integration redesigned course

Team-teaching with another PhD student. Our course taught students to integrate databases, sensors, machine learning, physical devices, web apps, or visualizations as needed to solve real problems. Taught as a design studio, students also held workshops to account for the customizability/open-endedness of the course topics.

Spring 2018, UNC at Charlotte.

ITCS 1610/3610 STARS Leadership Course redesigned course

Service learning class taught as a startup incubtor. Each team developed a product to address a problem of societal relevance. Students were from Psychology, CS, and Management. Material included topics from psychology, marketing, management theory, history, and design.

Spring 2016, UNC at Charlotte.

2017 TA of the Year Award (College of Computing and Informatics)

Teaching Assistant

ITCS 3130 Human Computer Interaction

Summer II 2018, UNC at Charlotte.

ITIS 2214 Data-structures and Algorithms

Fall 2016, Spring 2017, UNC at Charlotte.

ITIS 1213 Intro to Media Programming II

Spring 2013, Spring 2015, UNC at Charlotte.

ITCS 3182 Computer Organization and Architecture

Fall 2012, UNC at Charlotte.