Aishwarya H. Balwani

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A snapshot from one of our H.O.T sessions. I'm there somewhere :)

Teaching and Mentoring Experience

I’ve been lucky to have had the opportunity to teach, mentor, and work with a number of smart and motivated students. Quite a few of these opporunities presented themselves as TAships that I’ve held over the years while others have come in the form of collaborations that I’ve had with fellow students conducting research in the NerDS lab.

Teaching Assistant

Semester-long courses:

DAE was an interdisciplinary, introductory machine learning and data science class aimed at undergraduate juniors and seniors across the College of Engineering at GaTech. In addition to carrying out the usual TA responsibilities of holding office hours, grading homework, etc. I was also actively involved in the development of the course material and running of DAE by virtue of it being a new course taught by my (former) advisor Dr. Eva Dyer along with Dr. A.J. Medford!

MFDS was a new, special topics course taught by Dr. Kiryung Lee which introduced senior ECE undergraduates to a number of foundational topics in machine learning and data science. I was the sole TA for the class and had the responsibility of grading homework and conducting (some of my most popular and appreciated) office hours.

Workshops and short courses

H.O.T. Days @ Georgia Tech is a one-week-long summer day camp designed to expose students attending high schools in Georgia to electrical and computer engineering (ECE) concepts and their various applications. Under Dr. Eva Dyer & Dr. Mark Davenport, I had the opportunity to introduce ~40 rising high school juniors/seniors to image processing, convolutional neural networks, and style transfer.

DL@MBL is a short summer course meant to familiarize researchers in the life sciences with state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, tools, and frameworks that could be used to solve problems involving microscopy image analysis in their research. I was happy to accompany Dr. Dyer (who was a course faculty member) as one of her TAs in 2019, and worked with the attendees during labs covering topics ranging from introductory image processing to advanced deep learning models for image denoising, segmentation and classification. I also had the chance to eat some great sea food and tour the Marine Biological Lab + Woods Hole during my visit!

Junior Instructor

I had the opportunity to serve as one of the junior instructors for the Summer 2016 offering of Summer Industrial Training and Internship Program in Embedded Systems and IoT, a month long course conducted by Eduvance in collaboration with the ARM University Program, Cypress University Alliance, and Microchip Technologies. The course introduced rising seniors pursuing ECE and other related majors to embedded systems in both theory and practice with the intention of making them better prepared to execute their senior design projects.

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