My love of mathematics began with one-on-one tutoring in trigonometry when I was a Junior in college. It was because of fantastic tutors that I discovered just how wonderful math can be and just how much of an impact a good teacher has on your experience in a subject. Because of my amazing tutors ... (read more)
...My success in teaching math to a wide variety of age groups and abilities stems from knowing that anyone can be a "math person." Hard work and determination, combined with a supportive and knowledgeable teacher, guarantee success in the short and long terms. Math and English and writing need to be fun. You learn the best when you are engaged. (read more)
...To succeed with proofs, students must have the concepts of theorems, postulates and axioms memorized extremely well. So I encourage them to make flash cards of the theorems, postulates and axioms. After the theorems are memorized, I teach them how to use them to prove other theorems. (read more)
...I'm comfortable with analog circuits, Fourier/Laplace/z-transforms, block and signal flow diagrams, and putting it all together for real-world filter and controller design. I studied machine learning for my master's at U of M. I currently research neural network defenses to common adversarial attacks. (read more)
...I have privately studied music theory and classical guitar/jazz theory since I was 8 years old. Soon after commencing private lessons, my instructors discovered that I have relative pitch, in which I am able to identify any interval between two notes in the chromatic scale (as well as microtonal... (read more)