Teaching & Mentoring

I am committed to education across the academic spectrum, having taught and mentored diverse groups of undergraduate and graduate students.

Recognized with UC Berkeley’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, my teaching experience spans a broad spectrum of learners, from undergrads and grads, exchange students, and elementary/middle school students from diverse backgrounds.

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: 77.19%)
    • Helpfulness: 4.84/5.00 (avg: 4.57)
    • Communication: 4.77/5.00 (avg: 4.48)
    • Inclusive Environment: 4.79/5.00 (avg: 4.49)
    • Accessibility: 4.86/5.00 (avg: 4.67)
  • Recognition:
    • Awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (Top 10%)
    • Invited 3 times (2023/2024/2025) 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)

Lecturer, UC Berkeley

BAIR-NCKU Summer AI Workshop (Graduate Level)

Period: July 2025

  • Enrollment: 6 (Masters Students from NCKU)
  • Served as the main student coordinator for the week-long module on “AI & Transportation”
  • Instructed the cohort on “Learning and controls in Mixed Autonomy Traffic Systems” and “Neural Finite Volume Methods”
Girl Scout Engineering Day

Period: May 2023

  • Enrollment: 60 (Elementary/Middle School Students from Girl Scout)
  • Led a hands-on programming workshop for over 60 elementary and middle school girls, teaching basic coding principles
  • Mentored and inspired a diverse group of young girls to build confidence and pursue future careers in STEM through an engaging introduction to university-level engineering

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

Guest Lecturer

UCLA CEE C181/C281 Traffic Engineering Systems: Operations and Control (Undergrad & Graduate Level)

Period: Nov. 2025 Institution: UCLA

  • Enrollment: 30 (Undergrads & Graduates)
  • Instructed on the theory and application of modeling and control in mixed-autonomy traffic systems.

Mentoring

Honored with the Evergreen Award for Undergraduate Researcher Mentoring, I have closely mentored a diverse group of 16 students: from undergraduates, exchange students, Master of Engineering students, Master of Science students, and Ph.D. students, across CEE and EECS departments.

Undergraduate Students

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

  • Sami Seyedjafar Kashi, CEE, Spring 2024

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
  • Zakaria Baba, research intern from École Polytechnique, 2025. Currently Ph.D. student at Caltech CMS
  • Martin Drieux, research intern from École Polytechnique, 2025. Currently M.S. student at Carnegie Mellon University MSML
  • Alexi Canesse, research intern from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2025. Currently Ph.D. student at École Polytechnique
  • 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