Grade homework for Discrete Math (MATH 574) and Proof-Writing (MATH 300)

Hold lab sessions to help students in CSCE 145 and CSCE 146 (Algorithmic Design I and II) with their assignments and better understand the material

Worked on a Magellan grant and published a paper with the Wordification project, which aims to develop a suite of games to help younger students improve their spelling skills

Helped students in CSCE 215 (UNIX/Linux Fundamentals) with questions in lab sessions and held office hours for extra help

Have tutored over 25 clients, and created and manage website

The REU program at Iowa State runs (roughly) every other year and has been running for about twenty years. Participants spend eight weeks working on research projects in graph theory. In particular, my project is related to counting maximal independent sets in grid-like graphs.Students will work in collaborative teams with about three undergraduate members as part of active research groups during the summer. There is no coursework or workshop associated with the REU; the individual groups will provide relevant backgrounds to their group members as needed at the beginning of the REU, with the bulk of the REU consisting of students engaged in research with regular meeting with their mentors. Note that project mentors select their team.In addition to the research program there will be regular professional development which includes topics such as how to use LaTeX, basics of SAGE, how to give presentations, preparing for graduate school, careers outside of academia, dealing with collaborators, mental health, diversity issues in mathematics, and more.At the end of the summer program, each group will produce a writeup of their results, a poster, and a presentation. Many projects subsequently submit papers for publication and present the results of their research at conferences.

The Summer Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Accelerator (SUMSA) is an eight week mathematics and statistics summer bootcamp for undergraduates at U.S. colleges and universities which will be hosted by IMSI on the campus of the University of Chicago. The aim of the program is to help prepare students for the rigors of graduate school in a mathematical science with lecture series and problems sessions taught by experienced postdocs and advanced graduate students from the University of Chicago.

Worked on a team project to contribute to software designed to combat threats such as terrorism and human trafficking

Completed required trainings and worked polls on Election Day

Created Read Ahead presentations and blog posts