STEM Educational Materials

FACULTY POSITIONS: 1. Statistics Instructor, UC Santa Cruz Extension, 2013-2014. 2. Statistics Instructor, Chabot College, Mathematics Dept., 2001-2004. 3. Statistics Instructor, UC Los Angeles, Psychology Dept., 2001. 4. Mathematics Instructor, UC Berkeley, Mathematics Dept., 1999. 5. Tenure-track assistant professor, Cal State Fresno, Mathematics Dept., 1997-1998. 6. Visiting assistant professor, Cal State Hayward, Mathematics Dept., 1996-1997. 7. Adjunct assistant professor, UC Berkeley, Mathematics Dept., 1994-1996. 8. Mathematics instructor, San Diego Mesa Community College, Mathematics Dept., 1986-1987. TEACHING AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS: 1. Probability and Statistics T.A., UC Santa Cruz, Computer Engineering Dept., 2008-2014. 2. Statistics Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Dept., 2011-2012. 3. Genetics Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Dept., 2011. 4. Mathematics Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego, Mathematics Dept., 1987-1990. 5. Engineering Research Assistant, UC San Diego, Applied Mechanics and Engineering Dept., 1982.  VISITING SCHOLAR APPOINTMENTS: 1. FONDECYT Visitor, University of Chile, Mathematics Dept., Santiago, CHILE, 2012, 2013. 2. Research Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics Dept., Berkeley, CA, USA, 1991-1993, 1997-2000. 3. Visitor, Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, UP, INDIA, 1998.

I teach from the mindset that everyone can learn as long as they desire to learn - a question of finding what learning style works best for them and then helping them learn how to learn. Teacher Award, Students’ Disability Center, Chabot College, 2003

1. Marilyn C. & Raymond E. Davis memorial scholarship (Professional development award), UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 2012. 2. Travel grant, International Society Computational Biology, ISCB Latin America Conference, Santiago, CHILE, 2012. 3. The prize for Graduate Research in Biomedical Engineering, Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, SACNAS Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, 2011. 4. American Mathematical Society Travel grant, First International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Sociedad de Matemática de Chile, Universidad de la Frontera, Pucón, CHILE, 2010. 5. Research Mentoring Institute Scholar, UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, 2008-2010. 6. The prize for Graduate Research in Genomics, Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, SACNAS Annual Conference, Kansas City, USA, 2007. 7. First place, College of Science and Engineering Annual Showcase, SFSU, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2006. 8. Stanford Summer Research Program Scholar, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2005. 9. Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Scholar, SFSU, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2004-2008. 10. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley, CA, USA,1993-1996. 11. UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley, CA, USA,1991-1993. 12. UC President’s Pre-doctoral Fellow, La Jolla, CA, USA,1990-1991. 13. UC San Diego Fellow, La Jolla, CA, USA, 1982-1984; 1985-1986. 14. UT Austin Fellow, Austin, TX, USA, 1984-1985.

CERTIFICATES: M.S., Bioinformatics, 
University of California, Santa Cruz M.S., Cell and Molecular Biology, San Francisco State University Ph.D., Mathematics,
 University of California, San Diego M.A., Applied Mathematics, University of California, San Diego B.A., Astronomy and Physics, Mount Holyoke College INVITATIONS: 1. Postdoctoral Fellow invitation, I.A.S., Princeton U., Princeton, NJ, USA, 1993-94. 2. Graduate studies, Master’s program, Biostatistics Dept., Harvard U. Cambridge, MA, 2009. 3. Graduate studies, Master’s program, Astronomy Dept., Harvard U., Cambridge, MA,1994. 4. Elected to Sigma Xi (Scientific honor society), S. Hadley, MA, USA,1981. SUMMER/WINTER SCHOOLS: 1. Graduate Summer School: Deep Learning, Feature Learning, I.P.A.M., Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2012. 2. N.A.T.O. Advanced Study Summer School: Hamiltonian Systems with Three or More Degrees of Freedom, S’Agaro, SPAIN, 1995. 3. Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, I.A.S., Hebrew U., Jerusalem, ISRAEL, 12/1993-1/1994. RECENT WORKSHOP: Translating Cancer Data and Models to Clinical Practice Workshop, I.P.A.M., Los Angeles, USA, 2014.

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