Teaching assistant for "CS70: Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory" with Anant Sahai.

Led weekly sections (~30 students) and designed problem sets.

Very high overall student evaluation: 4.3/5 (see link)

Teaching assistant for the upper-division class "CS170: Efficient Algorithms and Intractable Problems" with Christos Papadimitriou and Satish Rao.

Led weekly sections (~50 students), held office hours and designed problem sets.

Very high overall student evaluation: 4.7/5 (see link)

Developed a web information extractor using semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields

Accelerated training ×20 by parallelizing gradient computation over a Hadoop cluster

Developed a log-miner for anomaly-based bot detection in Hadoop using Clojure and Cascalog

Devised a bootstrapping method for statistical significance of user satisfaction measurements