"I am tutoring and novel-writing full-time after finishing a PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. I've been coding for 16 years and teaching for the past 11 years. My tutoring specialties are coding, application essay review, and technical interview prep. Within coding, my particular specialty is scientific programming, though I am proficient in a wide variety of languages and paradigms. I can also help with essays more generally, having spent the past several years working on novels, and the decade before that immersed in scientific writing. In essays, my specialty is ironing out logical flow.

My teaching experience spans a dozen courses over the past 10 years, with students ranging from computationally-minded PhD students to theater majors forced into a math requirement. My 16 years of coding began in high school, continued through a CS-heavy undergrad math major, and went full-time during my 7-year PhD. I've used a wide variety of languages to the point that I'm confident I can help you through coding in any language you may be using. The core of most programs, the algorithm, usually transcends language, and so do the equally-important auxiliary skills like Google-fu and debugging. Fair warning: I won't design nor debug your program for you. I'll basically be a rubber ducky that asks leading and encouraging questions. In my experience it's an effective tutoring method for everyone from complete beginners through experts.

For technical interview prep we'll work from McDowell's "Cracking the Coding Interview" to make sure you know all the strategies to nail those pesky questions asked by everyone from start-ups to quant hedge funds.

I have most recent experience in Julia, Python, & Matlab. Previously I've used Mathematica, C, C++, Java, R, JavaScript, TypeScript, Visual Basic, & Haskell.

Please reach out with any questions! I'm happy to tell you whether I'll be helpful on a particular project (or type of job interview). With any luck, you won't need my help for long!" less...