TA for COM S 309, focusing on major software engineering topics and preparing students to lead medium-sized software projects. Emphasized teamwork, accountability, project management, and professional ethics through a semester-long group project.

Key topics/goals:

• Software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation
• Project management: process models, planning, scheduling, risk management
• Software artifacts and documentation
• Configuration management & source control
• Testing, reviews, and quality assurance
• Legal and ethical principles in computing
• Information management, relational & object-oriented models
• Networking basics: DNS, IP, HTTP, client/server APIs

TA for COM S 336, an introduction to computer graphics. Students learned the graphics pipeline, coordinate systems, transformation matrices, and how to create interactive 3D applications. The course emphasized practical skills in OpenGL/WebGL, shader programming, and modern rendering techniques.

Prepared quizzes on TopHat, conducted office hours, and provided student support via Piazza discussions. Conducted labs focused on teaching 3-D rendering, visualization techniques, and basic graphics programming.

Key topics/goals:

• Graphics pipeline, vertex & fragment shaders
• 3D transformations & matrices
• Scene hierarchy & interactive graphics
• Phong lighting model
• Shader programming (lighting, textures, bump mapping)
• Offscreen buffers & shadow mapping
• Procedural noise & effects
• Contemporary graphics techniques