Teaching Interest
Teaching Interest
Overview
Description
Teaching has been a lifelong passion of mine. As the third generation of academics in my family, I see good teaching as a means to give back and to encourage others to share my passion for discovery. I’ve been very lucky to have many teaching opportunities, both as an undergraduate (three computer science courses) and as a graduate student (two MBA courses), and taught directly over 200 students of my own and indirectly several hundred more (online or in large lecture halls).
Some of the best moments of my life have been learning that students with no prior background in the field I was teaching, had since started a career in those fields, including some becoming teachers of the courses I taught. I’ve strongly supported successful candidacies of many students to obtain jobs in big data, in marketing, and in physics at placements such as Microsoft, CERN, and Harvard, as well as students applying to graduate schools. My students have evaluated me as “one of the best TFs I’ve had at Harvard”, “very technically competent and able to explain difficult concepts simply to a non-technical audience”, “very earnest and helpful”, “dedicated”, “very enthusiastic”, “well organized”, and “one of the best teachers I’ve ever had”.
My teaching philosophy is that even the most challenging concepts can be well grasped by any student with good enough teaching.
My courses covered introductory computer science, data science and visualization, "big data" and machine learning, marketing, and technology strategy.
My teaching has been recognized with a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching by Harvard's Derek Bok center, as well as with several invited guest lectures at institutions in the US and abroad.
Keywords
Big Data; Technology Strategy; Machine Learning; Data Science; "Marketing Analytics"; Data Visualization; Analysis; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Corporate Strategy; Software; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Advertising Industry