Our Illustration of Practice paper, Design principles for connecting university and secondary mathematics: Promoting a critical stance and secondary content knowledge in an upper division mathematics course, is accepted to the Journal of MTED!
Mar 05, 2026
Our paper, Pre-service secondary school teachers’ collective productive struggle in a university mathematics content course, is accepted to INDRUM 2026! Working on revision…
Feb 25, 2026
Attending RUME 2026 in Alexandria again. Excited to meet new friends, reunite with old friends, and present our work! Photo credit: Sunday Stein
Dec 03, 2025
Excited to share that I passed my dissertation proposal and I am officially a Ph.D. candidate! Deep appreciation to my committee members for their support and guidance, and to my MSED community, UCSD ProtoLab members, and friends for their valuable feedback during my practice runs.
Nov 08, 2025
Our paper session talk, Fostering a Critical Stance Through Inquiry: Transforming Future Teachers’ Perspectives in an Upper-Division Mathematics Course, is accepted to AERA 2026!
Nov 01, 2025
My paper, Exploring the relationship between group roles and participation patterns in an inquiry-based mathematics course, is accepted to RUME 2026! Our paper on Making upper division math courses more relevant for prospective teachers is also accepted.
Aug 04, 2025
Attending CI’25 in San Diego (UCSD) to present our work on Emergent Scaffolding! Photo credit: Nathaniel Abuan
May 16, 2025
Our paper, Self-reflective crowds: Surfacing wisdom through emergent scaffolding is accepted to CI’25!
Feb 27, 2025
Attending RUME 2025 in Alexandria. Excited to reunite with friends & colleagues and present our work. Photo credit: Ryan Aniceto
Nov 12, 2024
Our paper, The impact of a redesigned differential equations course on prospective teachers: Embracing a critical stance, is accepted to RUME 2025! My poster on Exploring students’ understanding of a limit of a sequence: Using $\epsilon$-strip activity with Realistic Mathematics Education framework is also accepted.
Attending BCCE 2024 in the Unvierstiy of Kentucky to present our talk on Patterns in the Development and Use of Education Instruments in the Journal of Chemical Education (2010-2020) for the CHIRAL project. Photo credit: Regis Komperda
Jul 22, 2024
Attending the 4-day PEER Field School in the University of San Diego to learn discipline-based education research.
Our Illustration of Practice paper, Design principles for connecting university and secondary mathematics: Promoting a critical stance and secondary content knowledge in an upper division mathematics course, is accepted to the Journal of MTED! 
Working on revision… 
Attending RUME 2026 in Alexandria again. Excited to meet new friends, reunite with old friends, and present our work! 
Excited to share that I passed my dissertation proposal and I am officially a Ph.D. candidate! Deep appreciation to my committee members for their support and guidance, and to my MSED community, UCSD ProtoLab members, and friends for their valuable feedback during my practice runs. 
Attending CI’25 in San Diego (UCSD) to present our work on Emergent Scaffolding! 
Our paper, The impact of a redesigned differential equations course on prospective teachers: Embracing a critical stance, is accepted to RUME 2025! My poster on Exploring students’ understanding of a limit of a sequence: Using $\epsilon$-strip activity with Realistic Mathematics Education framework is also accepted. 
Attending the 4-day PEER Field School in the University of San Diego to learn discipline-based education research. 
Started the joint doctoral program in MSED at SDSU and UCSD! 
Earned a CIRTL Associate certificate through the Math Instructional Skills Workshop and the Summer Teaching Institute on SoTL at UBC. 
My thesis, Parameter Estimation for Many-body Potentials, is now archived in UBC cIRcle and my M.Sc. has been officially conferred. Many thanks to Dr. Colin Macdonald, Dr. Neil Balmforth, and especially my supervisor, Dr. Christoph Ortner, for their support throughout this journey. 
Attending NE RUME 2022 online to present a talk on Exploring the Effectiveness and Usage of Math Definitions in Exam Responses.