2024 Common Ground Excellence in Teaching Award

Thank you to Dan Huttonlocher (Dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC)) for the recognition of my teaching of Introduction to Computational Science & Engineering subject (see the background here). This class was developed with many collaborators across the MIT Center for Computational Science & Engineering (CCSE). With support from the Common Ground for Computing Education, the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, the Department of Mathematics, CCSE, and SCC, Prof. Laurent Demanet and I were the main developers and original instructors of this subject which was first offered in Fall of 2020. More recently, Prof. Nidhi Seethapathi and I have been co-teaching it. Throughout the original development to 4+ years of teaching it, this highly collaborative, multi-department effort has been a highlight of my academic career.