I am an accomplished scholar in civil and environmental engineering, but it wasn't always this way. Throughout my academic career, I have perfected the path toward retaining long-term information and transferring these skills to practical use. In college, the most frustrating thing to me was studying a subject so thoroughly and still not understanding it beyond the exam. (read more)
I am a life-long professional mathematician (Math PhD), computer-scientist, expert chess player, and an educator. I have been teaching and tutoring mathematics since my youth, leading a math circle, teaching algebra and trigonometry in high school, and tutoring mathematics one-on-one. I also had s... (read more)
...I also focus on making sure they are confident solving problems independently, not just with my assistance, and help them build the skills needed to persist when presented with new problems and material. Through my classroom teaching, I have seen that tutoring can be an aide for students but als... (read more)
...In college, I taught math and computer science as a teaching assistant. In addition, over the years I have done one-on-one math tutoring to middle-school and high-school students. My teaching approach relies on a combination of concept discovery/derivation and a lot of practice -- teaching some... (read more)
As a Chemical Physics PhD with a degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science and experience as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, I have a unique understanding of the interplay between math, physics, and chemistry. Throughout my 30-year career in academia and industry, I have seen firsthand the im... (read more)