Category: Alumni

Hi! I’m a first year undergraduate from right here in the Bay, just about an hour from UC Berkeley. I’m pursuing a B.A. in either Computer Science or Applied Mathematics (I’m not quite sure which yet!) with a…

I was born in southwest England and moved to the Bay Area midway through my high school years. My rather eclectic educational experience (homeschool, online school, community college, and public school) made me appreciate alternative modes of education,…

I grew up in the Bay Area, not far from Berkeley, and moved to Eugene, Oregon just before high school. After high school, I returned to my hometown where I am currently a senior undergraduate student in the…

Research interests: I study mathematics instruction and students cognition in various learning environments. My dissertation (supervised by Prof. Boris Koichu, Technion) explores instructional and cognitive affordances of project-based learning (PBL) of mathematics and sheds light into the “black…

I started out as a High School and Middle School Math and Science Teacher in Brooklyn. I gradually moved on to do research and development as a member of several NSF funded projects at UC Berkeley, and served…

I am a first-year MACSME Math student here at UC Berkeley. I attended the University of Washington for my undergraduate studies, and I graduated in June 2014 with a B.A. in Mathematics. After two years of graduate work,…

I am a first year MACSME student, interested in teaching 9th or 10th grade mathematics.  I’m originally from the Los Angeles area, from a little town called Sierra Madre (no connection to the Humphrey Bogart movie).  I did…

I came to EDRL in September of 2014 as a visiting scholar. I’m a doctoral student of Zhejiang University in China. Zhejiang University is located in HangZhou which is a Picturesquare city. There’s a saying that goes:” Up above there is heaven;…

About Me: Please call me Ting! I am in my 4th and final year of the Joint Doctoral Program for Special Education, and taught in New York City before coming to Berkeley. I am a teacher of students…

Academic Interests: I am second year SESAME student exploring cognition in mathematics. I am interested in researching the use of metaphors to design better material for instruction. I am also interested in computational thinking. How does an algorithmic approach to…

I came to EDRL in the summer of 2013 as a visiting student researcher. Currently (fall, 2013), I’m in my junior year pursuing a Bachelors in Design (with a minor in Mathematics), from the Indian Institute of Technology,…

About Me: Education is a profession of which I am incredibly proud. As I see it, educators are the architects of young people’s dreams. Parents trust us, and children trust us, to provide them with every chance to…

About Me: I was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. After finishing high school, I spent 2 years working and going to college in Scotland. I worked and lived at a residential school for students with multiple and…

I’m a visiting scholar from Turkey. I’m a third year PhD student in Mathematics Education at Hacettepe University, Turkey. I gained my bachelor and master degree from the same department. I am interested in math education in rural…

About me: I am a visiting scholar coming from the Universidad Europea de Madrid (Spain). My degree was in Sport Science but my Masters and Phd was focused on Sociology so I am combining both fields in my…

About Me: I am a mathematician and computer scientist. I train as an operatic baritone. I advocate for public understanding of mental illness. Research Interests: I am interested in the use of Natural User Interfaces for pedagogical purposes, physical/computational hybrid technologies…

Hello! I’m a doctoral student interested in studying both developmental transitions – especially in the first years of life – and how people think and learn about probability and statistics. I work in several laboratories and my interests…

Contact: hungm1<at>sfusd<dot>edu About me: I am a National Board Certified High School Mathematics teacher in San Francisco. I have been teaching for 6 years at public schools in the Bayview Hunter’s Point community. I love my job because I get…

My background is in physics and theoretical neuroscience, both of which I studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. I discovered education as my desired playground during my time at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience…

Email: andrea [dot] negrete [at] berkeley [dot] edu ABOUT ME:  I am an entering first-year EMST Masters student and I have just received my Bachelor’s degree from Cal in Mathematics with a minor in CalTeach (with California Teaching…