"I'm a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford, currently working in RNA structure prediction and design. In 2016, I completed my Ph.D. at NYU, where I described new ways to inhibit protein-protein interactions. Earlier, I earned my B.A. from Harvard in Chemistry, though while I was there I spent a great deal of time on mathematics and physics as well. My undergraduate thesis was mostly in medicinal chemistry and total synthesis.

Though I have enjoyed tutoring students of all ages and levels of expertise -- from middle school to graduate school -- recently, I've enjoyed working with adult learners as well. Are you a lawyer looking to get some basic experience with programming so you can be conversant with tech clients? Are you a biotech CEO, hired for your business experience, who wants to understand biochemistry and protein structure? I am impressed by your commitment, ready for your work ethic, and able to fit your busy schedule.

I tutored through Harvard for five semesters, and I've tutored my peers unofficially since high school, serving as a co-director of the Writing Center my senior year of high school and running math tutoring services there as well.

I love to teach by helping students ask the right questions about the material, thereby clarifying their understanding. So many problems with teaching, particularly at the secondary school level, arise because teachers encourage a surface understanding of the material; with a poor understanding of the underlying connections come inconsistencies that prevent students from making the logical, next-step inferences that allow them to truly understand concepts and ideas." less...