Teaching

📌 My teaching approach combines analytical rigor with applied examples. I aim to make economics, finance, and quantitative methods accessible and relevant while helping students develop both technical skills and economic intuition.

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record

• RES-ECON 323: Financial Analysis for Consumers and Firms
  Fall 2024, Spring 2025
  Designed and taught an upper-level undergraduate course integrating household and firm financial decision-making with broader economic conditions and real-world market applications.

  Teaching Evaluations (Spring 2025)

  • Overall instructor rating: 4.5 / 5.0, above the department average of 4.3 / 5.0.
  • Classroom management and preparation: 4.8 / 5.0.
  • Student engagement: 4.6 / 5.0.

  Selected student comments:

  • “Used real-world examples and finance news to make class engaging.”
  • “The instructor created a relaxed and supportive learning environment.”
  • “A lot of what we learned was useful even outside of class.”

• RES-ECON 213: Intermediate Statistics for Business and Economics
  Summer 2023
  Designed and delivered an accelerated online undergraduate course covering statistical inference, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and applied quantitative reasoning.

Substitute Instructor, Smith College

• ECO 364: Seminar: The Economics of Future Technology
  Spring 2024
  Led seminar discussions on the economic implications of technological change and mentored students through semester-long research projects.

• ECO 125: Game Theory
  Spring 2024
  Delivered lectures and problem-solving sessions on strategic behavior and applied game-theoretic reasoning.

Teaching Assistant

• RES-ECON 452: Industrial Organization
  Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

• RES-ECON 212: Statistics for Social Sciences
  Fall 2023, Spring 2026

• RES-ECON 313: Decision Analysis (Sections 01 & 02)
  Fall 2025

• RES-ECON 312: Introductory Econometrics
  Spring 2024

• 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, Summer 2020

Recognition

🏆 Vijay Bhagavan Teaching Assistant of Distinction Award (2022)
University of Massachusetts Amherst