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Paper Title Number 4

Published in GitHub Journal of Bugs, 2024

This paper is about fixing template issue #693.

Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).
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BE 175: Machine Learning and Data-Driven Modeling in Bioengineering (Spring 2025 & Spring 2026)

Undergraduate Course, UCLA, Bioengineering, 1900

As a teaching assistant for BE 175, I led twenty students in weekly two-hour discussions, reinforcing and extending core lecture content. I focused on drilling the high-level intuition for machine learning techniques that my students may encounter in their careers as bioengineers, from dynamical systems to Bayesian inference. I also prioritized conditioning good practices and grooves of skepticism such that, even if they don’t understand the mathematics of a model they encounter in the workforce, they know how to probe and question it (i.e., always cross-validate!). Still, I liked to cover the mathematics underlying the techniques whenever time permitted and the math was cool.

BE 177A: Bioengineering Capstone Design I (Autumn 2025)

Undergraduate Course, UCLA, Bioengineering, 1900

As the teaching assistant for the computational track in the Bioengineering senior capstone, I was responsible for guiding four teams of five students as they ideated and built virtual cell models (e.g., predicting growth rates given drugs, transcriptional changes given CRISPRi KOs, etc.). I held weekly, two-hour office hours where I taught relevant concepts, suggested concrete packages and workflows, debugged code, and helped with interpretation. I also provided dense and specific feedback on practice presentations and proposals, focusing on honing scientific communication, grasp of core concepts, and the degree of creative innovation in each project.