...During 2004--2012, I earned an M.S. and Ph.D and was a Postdoc in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where I also was a teaching assistant for seven courses. My teaching was recognized with the Wunsch Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award in 2009. Prior to graduate school, I completed a 2190-mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. (read more)
...I believe that although algorithmic thinking and deductive reasoning is critically important in mathematics, so are conceptual thinking, inductive reasoning, mental mathematics, and making connections. Questions that I often ask are: What do you expect? Does this make sense? (read more)