Current Workload - Sabbatical 2026-2027

Teaching/Mentorship

Undergraduate Research 2 students
Two projects: A) Symbolic regression; and B) LLM calculation hallucination
Undergraduate Thesis 1 student
Graph Entropy.

Write research papers 3 papers
Write about undergraduate research experience in mathematics, about the development of online lower division mathematics courses, and entropy-based knowledge formative assessments.
Write book proposal 1 proposal and book sample
Book on intersection of improvisational theater and teaching. Focus on productive failure in STEM courses.
Math Refreshers for STEM courses 2 papers
Design math refreshers for college algebra, precalculus, and calculus for STEM courses.

Manage Data Science Faculty Development (PI) 6 activities
Lead in professional development grant for data science education. Partnership between UCSC and CSUMB. Running biweekly faculty discussion group in data science topics. Wrap up grant activities and reports.

UCSC Artificial Intelligence Council meetings every 2 weeks
The UC Santa Cruz Artifical Intelligence Council is the central body for guiding the university's approach to AI integration.
UC Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice meetings every 1 month
Participation in the UC wide Community of Practice about Artificial Intelligence in implementations in the University of California system.
Editorial Board American Mathematical Competitions 2 levels nationwide
Review and propose problems and solutions for the American Mathematical Competitions for AMIE and AMC 10/12.