Biography

I have always been an avid learner, a curious sponge of a mind, focused on learning more for its own sake and less about applications. As a kid, I was drawn to all subjects – English, History, Math, Science, with little preference between them as I really enjoyed just about everything in the right context.

In college, I chose to study engineering at UC Berkeley because I craved the challenge, and I wanted to see how far I could push my learning capacities – knowing that STEM and engineering studies is all about pushing how far you can go. I studied mechanical engineering at Berkeley – loving trains, planes, and automobiles, and I never lost my love of those other subjects either – taking elective classes in music, religion, and Hindi. I simply love learning how the world works, reading books, and discovering.

I worked as a mechanical engineer in the medical device industry at Boston Scientific, and delved very deep into building products, before taking the time off to realize I want to come back to teaching, where I have experience as a leader at BEAM, a hands-on teaching club at Berkeley, among other past summer camp experience.

I teach calculus and physics with the spirit of discovery and exploration they come from calculus created out of Newton’s desires to explain the falling apple, physics advancing in Tesla’s experiments and the discovery of compass needles pointing one direction. I love math and physics not for the tear-your-hair-out hard equations, but for love of experiments and the hands-on. And I wish to communicate to students that the joy of these subjects lies in the beauty of the world, and not just in hard homework problems.