Teach

To me, mentoring and teaching are about giving students an equal opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their backgrounds and starting points.

Mentoring

I adopt an effective, personalized approach to mentoring and advising students. My aim is to let students cultivate their own scientific interests while supporting each person to grow in both research excellence and engagement across their domains of interest.

My students have been recognized by awards such as the 2024 Origins PhD Award for Andrija Kostić and the 2024 Otho Lyle Tiffany & Mary Lois Tiffany Fellowship for Andrew Hope.

Teaching

I am continuously refining my teaching approach to provide students an inclusive and active learning experience. I taught an astronomy and cosmology course for motivated high school students at Michigan Math and Science Scholars, “Climbing the Distance Ladder to the Big Bang: How Astronomers Survey the Universe”.

The course encouraged students to climb the ladder of higher education, especially in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology, and it received overwhelmingly positive responses.