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Impostor syndrome and mental models

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Jerry and I both love teaching and so (especially now that he’s a professor with students of his own!) we frequently have conversations about pedagogical approaches, and these frequently come back to the idea of mental models. That is, when a student is having trouble understanding something, often it’s because their internal picture of how that system works, or how a new concept connects to old ones, is flawed or incomplete in some way. This could be due to any number of reasons, including (but not limited to):

Why Hello There…

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Hi there! I thought I’d start using the blog feature to share my thoughts and/or cool little side projects I take on for fun. This post is really just a placeholder commemorating the fact that I figured out how to turn the blog option back on for the site template. Look forward to some actual content hitting this space soon!

awards

Intel STS Semifinalist

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Research-based science competition for high school seniors, now known as the Regeneron Science Talent Search. I received semifinalist status for my work at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics in the summer of 2008

Mellon Grant

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Competitive grant that partially funded my undergraduate senior thesis research.

Gates Cambridge Scholarship

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Fully-funded scholarship to the University of Cambridge, established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and awarded to students with "outstanding intellectual ability, leadership potential, and a commitment to improving the lives of others."

Howard L. Schultz Prize

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Awarded to an undergraduate demonstrating "excellence, inventiveness, and good taste in experimental physics."

GRFP Honorable Mention

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Favorably reviewed application for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship

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Provides full stipend, tuition award, and computing resources for one year of graduate research support.

Graduate Student Teaching Award

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"The Graduate Teaching Awards are presented to a faculty member or a teaching assistant from each school (Architecture and Planning, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Engineering, Sloan School of Management, Science, and Health Sciences and Technology) for excellence in teaching graduate courses."

MFI Postdoctoral Fellowship

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"The MFI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program seeks candidates that will support the vision of MFI by demonstrating leadership in advanced manufacturing technologies, artificial intelligence, integrated design and entrepreneurship, the science of learning, technology policy, and addressing challenges that cross multiple disciplines."

posters

publications

service

Conference Organizer

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I served as the treasurer of the organizing committee for the 2012 NCUWP, held at Yale.

SPS Co-President

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I organized lectures (by both students and guests) and social events in the undergraduate physics community.

Project Bright Co-Leader

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I helped to run a solar energy advocacy group on campus and taught "Solar 202," a workshop about the science of solar energy.

Solar/Grid Community Co-Leader

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I organized lectures, field trips, and social events around the themes of solar energy and the electricity grid.

Graduate Student Panelist

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I returned to NCUWP as a graduate student to serve on a panel at the 2015 confeence!

Conference Organizer

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I helped to organize a workshop in Mexico City about opportunities for solar energy in Mexico in light of the 2014 energy reforms there.

Graduate Student Mentor, Solar Spring Break

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I helped coordinate, mentor, and participate alongside a group of undergraduates who traveled to the Los Angeles area to work with Grid Alternatives installing solar panels on houses in low-income communities.

Member, Graduate Student Advisory Group for Engineering

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I'm part of a group that meets directly with the Dean of the School of Engineering to keep him in touch with the graduate student experience. In particular, I serve on the subcommittee for improving advisor-advisee relations.

Reviewer

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Peer review for the ACS journal Applied Energy Materials and RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science

Reviewer

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Peer review for the NeurIPS workshop on machine learning for physical sciences.

talks

teaching

Science and QR Tutor

Tutoring, Yale University, Dean's Office, 2011

I served as a Science and QR (quantitative) reasoning tutor through the Yale Dean’s office. Students who were struggling in their classes could apply for a tutor and I would meet with them one-on-one and help them learn material and work on their homework. I tutored for a variety of classes including calculus and introductory physics.

MIT 3.23

TA, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2018

I served as a teaching assistant to the first-year graduate course 3.23: Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials, taught by Prof. Geoffrey Beach. Responsibilities included writing problem sets and solutions, giving recitation lectures, and holding office hours and exam review sessions.