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About Me: I am a second year graduate student in the MACSME mathematics program at Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley. I am studying to earn a teaching credential for teaching secondary mathematics along with a master's degree in education. I was born and grew up in Shanghai. I immigrated to California at the age of 19 and started studying at College of San Mateo. Later I transferred from College of San Mateo to University of California, Davis and got my Bachelor's degree in mathematics there in spring 2006. I am an amateur player of Er Hu (one of Chinese musical instruments) and flute. I learned to play both of them at the Children's Palace of Chuansha in Shanghai. My favorite type of music is classical music.

Research Interests: I am in the second year of the MACSME program and am interested in using constructivist approach, through designing and then implementing mathematical models based on students' prior and existing knowledge, to help foster students' conceptual understanding of mathematical concepts, procedures, et cetera.

Masters Thesis (unpublished): Towards fostering understanding for the meaning of fraction multiplication. (You can see the abstract of the paper along with a 5 minute demonstration of the design discussed in the paper here.)