Board member of the amazing non-profit FabLab Onl'Fait in Geneva. Helping with strategic development.

Consultant for NSF financed project between Teachers College, UC Berkeley and MIT.

Contributing to the development of a DRK-12 funded citizen science platform for brain and behavior research for high schools.

Contributing to various projects for education research and development at the TLTLab, headed by Professor Paulo Blikstein. Current focus on a DRK-12 funded project to develop a new platform for scientific modeling in K-12 schools.

My main advisor is Prof Paulo Blikstein. My research projects involve collaborations with Prof. Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Prof. Carl Wieman. 1. Project: Cloud-based Laboratories in Biology: I co-develop a web application with a remote laboratory of microscopes that allows students to run experiments, visualize the data, create and evaluate models in direct comparison with the real data. I conducted controlled experiments in middle school classroom and in online learning settings and applied… Show more My main advisor is Prof Paulo Blikstein. My research projects involve collaborations with Prof. Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Prof. Carl Wieman. 1. Project: Cloud-based Laboratories in Biology: I co-develop a web application with a remote laboratory of microscopes that allows students to run experiments, visualize the data, create and evaluate models in direct comparison with the real data. I conducted controlled experiments in middle school classroom and in online learning settings and applied machine learning to analyze process data. I am currently on extending the web app to integrate scientific experimentation, modeling and data analysis, and to employ the web app in middle school classrooms. 2. Project: Mechanistic Reasoning in Physics (with Carl Wieman): I co-designed a new two-week unit on electric circuits with high school teachers in Chicago to develop mechanistic reasoning. In a related project, I conducted clinical interviews with novice and expert Physicists to examine patterns of reasoning in Physics.3. Project: Technologies for Science Inquiry: I conducted multiple laboratory studies to examine how the design of virtual and physical science technology impacts inquiry-based learning. I further applied machine learning to analyze process data.4. Project: Learning Analytics in CS: I applied machine learning on log-data from homework of CS undergraduate students to examine whether students’ need for help can be detected in their process data. Show less

I was part of the teaching team of the course Beyond Bits and Atoms (CS402 and CS402L), created by Prof Paulo Blikstein. This is a project-based class on designing education technology with digital fabrication and physical computing. It consists of a theory and a lab part. Students build technologies using laser cutters, 3D printers, and physical computing with microcontrollers. I was responsible for both at different times. 2015, I was teaching assistant of the lab; 2016 I was instructor of… Show more I was part of the teaching team of the course Beyond Bits and Atoms (CS402 and CS402L), created by Prof Paulo Blikstein. This is a project-based class on designing education technology with digital fabrication and physical computing. It consists of a theory and a lab part. Students build technologies using laser cutters, 3D printers, and physical computing with microcontrollers. I was responsible for both at different times. 2015, I was teaching assistant of the lab; 2016 I was instructor of the lab; 2017 I was instructor of the class. As instructor, I was head lecturer and designer of course materials. Show less

I took on a consulting role with the start of my PhD.

I helped run the daily business in a foster home of 15 children ages 2 to 18.

Brightworks (sfbrightworks.org) is a K-12 private school with a radically new pedagogical concept. I was responsible for literature research for the theoretical framework of the Brightworks pedagogy. I participated in the initial build-out of the school, and co-organized a two-week workshop on resonance for potential students.

The start-up Augniscient Inc. used cognitive models for web-based semantic personalized information systems. I designed an interactive launch webpage, developed core cognitive models for text analysis and a parallel implementation of the cognitive system.

I co-developed a new financing scheme for small-scale projects in biosequestration. I re-organized the database of carbon offset projects.

In collaboration with VivienneMing,PhD. I worked on auditory processing of human speech; I developed a hierarchical Bayesian model of human speech processing in the auditory neural pathway.