Teaching & Mentoring

My teaching and mentoring experience at UC Berkeley and beyond

Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

CE262 Analysis of Transportation Data (Graduate Level)

Period: Aug. 2021 - Dec. 2021

  • Enrollment: 57
    • PhD/Master core course for SYS and TRANS students in CEE department
    • Students’ degree programs include Undergraduate, MEng, MS, MBA and PhD
    • Students’ departments include CEE, CED and Haas School of Business
  • Student Ratings: 4.67/5.00 (dept. avg: 4.41, response rate: 77%)
    • Helpfulness: 4.84/5.00
    • Communication: 4.77/5.00
    • Inclusive Environment: 4.79/5.00
    • Accessibility: 4.86/5.00
  • Recognition:
    • Awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (Top 10%)
    • Invited 3 times to serve as one of three panelists at International GSI conference held for around 800 first-time GSIs at UC Berkeley
    • Invited to serve as the panelist for the pedagogy class for new GSIs (CE375)

Volunteer Teacher

Basic Health and Hygiene

Period: Jan. 2016 - Feb. 2016
Institution: Lianhua Village School

  • Enrollment: 15 (Elementary School Students in “Hui” minority)
  • Volunteered to teach elementary school students at a religious school located in Lianhua village, a less-developed corner of China’s mountainous west
  • Shocked by the poor health resources the left-behind children have, I designed the “Basic Health and Hygiene” course on my own, including creating the syllabus, preparing the materials and delivering 10 one-hour lectures

Mentoring

Undergraduate Students

CEE Scholars research mentorship program (for undergrads from PREP and T-PREP programs) - March 2024 - Present

  • Sami Seyedjafar Kashi, CEE, 2024 - 2025

BAIR undergraduate mentoring program - Oct. 2023 - Present

  • Atharva Gupta, EECS, 2023 - 2024
  • Nicole Han, EECS, 2023 - present

Mobile Sensing Lab undergraduate mentoring - Oct. 2021 - Present

  • Qing Lyu, exchange student from Tongji U, 2025 - present. Currently M.S. student at UC Berkeley CEE
  • Xiaoyang Cao, exchange student from Tsinghua U, 2024 - present. Currently Master student at MIT TPP
  • Jiaying Yang, exchange student from Tongji U, 2023 - 2024. Currently M.S. student at UC Berkeley CEE
  • Ashwin Dara, EECS, 2023 - 2024. Currently software engineer at Doordash
  • Eric Cheng, EECS, 2021 - 2022. Currently software engineer at Unity

Graduate Students

EECS MEng capstone project mentor - Sep. 2023 - May 2024

  • Alvin Bao, EECS, 2023 - 2024. Currently software engineer at Netflix
  • Tony Luo, EECS, 2023 - 2024. Currently software engineer at Doordash
  • Abirami Sabbani, EECS, 2023 - 2024. Currently software engineer at Walmart Global Tech
  • Cathy Wang, EECS, 2023 - 2024. Currently software engineer at AWS

TRANSOC graduate student mentoring program - Oct. 2020 - Present

  • Xuanmian He, CEE, 2025 - present. Currently M.S. student at UC Berkeley
  • Zihe Liu, CEE, 2024 - present. Currently Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley
  • Juanwu Lu, CEE, 2021 - 2022. Currently Ph.D. student at Purdue University
  • Jianxuan Yin, CEE, 2020 - 2021. Currently construction technology engineer at XL Construction