Teaching

📌 My teaching philosophy combines analytical rigor with applied examples.
I strive to make economics and finance concepts accessible and relevant,
helping students build both technical competence and real-world intuition.

Teaching Experience

Sole Instructor

• Res-Econ 323: Financial Analysis for Consumers and Firms
  Fall 2024, Spring 2025
  Designed and taught this upper-level undergraduate course covering consumer finance, firm financial analysis, interest rates, and investment decisions.

  Teaching Evaluations (Spring 2025)

  • Overall teaching effectiveness: 4.5 / 5.0 (above department and campus averages).
  • Course quality: 4.0 / 5.0, with 71% rating it as above average or one of the best.
  • Preparation & clarity: 100% agreement on effective preparation and use of time (mean 4.8).
  • Student support: Strong ratings for fairness (4.5) and interest in student learning (4.6).
  • 📌 Students consistently praised my ability to connect financial concepts to real-world issues, flexibility in teaching, and supportive learning environment.

  Selected comments:

  • “Jing was awesome!”
  • “If more tenured professors approached class like Jing did, UMass education would be the best.”
  • “Weekly finance news discussions and stock market coverage made the course engaging.”
  • “The instructor created a relaxed, supportive learning environment.”
  • “Very helpful and understanding… genuinely cared for us.”

• Res-Econ 213: Intermediate Statistics for Business and Economics
  Summer 2023
  Sole instructor for an accelerated summer course. Covered probability, hypothesis testing, regression, and applied data analysis using R and Excel.

Teaching Assistant

• Res-Econ 313: Decision Analysis (Sections 01 & 02) (Fall 2025)
• Res-Econ 452: Industrial Organization (Fall 2025)
• Res-Econ 312: Introductory Econometrics (Spring 2024)
• Res-Econ 212: Statistics for Social Sciences (Fall 2023)
• Res-Econ 452: Industrial Organization (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
• Res-Econ 428: Managerial Economics (Spring 2021)
• Res-Econ 453: Public Policy in Private Markets (Spring 2021)
• Res-Econ 202: Price Theory (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

Recognition

🏆 Vijay Bhagavan Teaching Assistant of Distinction Award (2022)
Awarded for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and student support.