"I am a 4th year PhD student in Operations Research (Math) at the University of Texas at Austin. In high school, I was a national AP scholar, receiving a maximum score of 5 on all 9 of my AP exams and 2300 on my SAT. I received my B.S. in physics and mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and my Master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas with a 4.0 GPA. I am deeply passionate about mathematics, programming, and, most of all, problem-solving. I have years of experience working on challenging problems and have honed the heuristics and insights to tackle hard problems in STEM. I love helping others reach that 'aha!' moment and fostering the joy of mathematical problem-solving in others.

I have previously tutored undergraduates in physics, linear algebra, combinatorics, Python, and math contest prep, as well as high school students for the math section of the SAT, physics, and calculus. Each of my students reported enjoying the subject more as well as improvements in their understanding and performance.

Students are frequently taught how to use tools to solve a specific class of problems. When a problem arises outside of the types of problems they have been taught to solve, students may find these problems intractable. My tutoring approach is to help students learn how to build their own tools to confidently approach problems they have never seen before. My tutoring is most effective when students come to me with concepts/problems they struggle with. Then, we begin from first principles, building up the understanding of the relevant tools/techniques (and the intuition behind why we would use these) until we can solve the problem, and then reinforcing what we learned with additional examples/extensions." less...