Teaching

Courses I've lectured, TA'd, and the students I've mentored.

As lecturer

Georgia State University

CSC 4850 / 6850 — Introduction to Machine Learning

Spring 2024 · Lecturer / Teaching Fellow

Undergraduate and graduate sections. Covered supervised learning, kernel methods, ensembles, neural networks, evaluation, and a unit on biological-sequence ML drawn from my research. Slides & materials.

As teaching assistant

Advanced Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Georgia State University · Fall 2024 · Instructor: Murray Patterson

Introduction to Machine Learning

Georgia State University · Summer 2024 · Instructor: Mario Kubek

Software Engineering

Georgia State University · Summer 2023 · Instructor: Sudha Tushara Sadasivuni

Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Georgia State University · Spring 2023 · Instructor: Alexander Zelikovsky

Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

Georgia State University · Fall 2022, Spring 2023 · Instructor: Lee S. Katz

CSC 2720 — Data Structures

Georgia State University · Spring 2022, Fall 2021

CSC 4760 — Big Data Programming

Georgia State University · Summer 2021 · Instructor: Peng Wang

CS 5312 — Big Data Analytics

LUMS · Spring 2019, Spring 2020 · Instructor: Imdadullah Khan

CS 510 — Design and Analysis of Algorithms

LUMS · Fall 2018 · Instructor: Imdadullah Khan

CS 210 — Discrete Mathematics

LUMS · Fall 2017

Mentorship

PhD & junior researchers

I've had the privilege of working closely with several students during my PhD, all of whom have gone on to faculty, postdoctoral, or active doctoral positions.

PhD students

Zahra Tayebi — Lecturer, Georgia State University · Taslim Murad — Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis · Prakash Chourasia — PhD candidate, Georgia State University · Avais Jan — PhD candidate, Georgia State University · Mansoor Balooch — PhD candidate, Georgia State University.

MS and undergraduate students

Ria Thazhe Punathil (MS) — Software Engineer, Apple · Luan Tran (BS) — MS student, Georgia Institute of Technology · Yijing Zhou (BS) — Software Engineer, Amazon.