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Teaching

Courses and curriculum


Optimization, statistics, and operations — from undergraduate operations management to Ph.D. courses in statistical modeling and a graduate course on optimization for machine learning.

CurriculumRutgers Business School

Curriculum development

Created

Optimization Methods for Machine Learning — designed from scratch for the Masters in Information Technology and Analytics (MITA) program, connecting modern first-order methods to the practice of large-scale learning.

Redesigned

Introduction to Linear Statistical Models (Ph.D.) — rebuilt around modern topics and techniques arising in business data analytics.

Rutgers2016 – present

Rutgers University

Spring 2020 · Fall 2021

Optimization Methods for Machine Learning

M.S. (MITA program) — created and designed the course

Fall 2016 – Fall 2021

Introduction to Linear Statistical Models

Ph.D. — redesigned around modern business data analytics

Every spring, 2019 – 2025

Operations Management

Undergraduate

Fall 2017 · Fall 2019

Linear Programming

Undergraduate

Spring 2017

Business Research Methods

Undergraduate

NYU Courant2007 – 2014

Earlier: Courant Institute, NYU

Spring 2014

Multivariable Analysis

Graduate — instructor

Summer 2009

Calculus

Undergraduate — instructor

Teaching-assistant appointments at Courant (probability, analysis, PDEs for finance) are listed in the full CV.