Teaching Experience

Imperial College London, UK

  • Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Courses:
    - Pervasive Computing (CO338), Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
    - Pervasive Computing (CO338), Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

The University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Lecturer,
    - Database Systems (COMP9311), Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
    » Please see CATEI (Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement) for my teaching evaluation by The University of New South Wales.
    » For teaching innovation, I have also run a DB Nerd Competition, which turns out to be very successful.
  • Course Administrator & Lab Demonstrator,
    - Introduction to World Wide Web, Spreadsheets and Databases (COMP1000), Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
    » I co-designed the course curriculum with Prof. William Wilson, including course content, pedagogical activities, and grading scheme.
    » As a lab demonstrator, I was also in charge of 4 out of 6 lab classes (each with 20 students).
  • Teaching Assistant for Postgraduate Courses:
    - Advanced Database Systems Implementation (COMP9315), Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
    - Information Retrieval and Data Mining (COMP6714), Feb 2011 - Jun 2011
  • Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Courses:
    - Computing for Engineers (ENG1811), Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
    - Computing for Engineers (ENG1811), Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
    - Introduction to Database Systems (COMP3311), Jul 2010 - Dec 2010

Donghua University, China

  • Lecturer,
    - Oracle Database (CS319), 07s1, 08s2
    - C++ Programming (CS203), 07s2, 09s2
    - Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (CS104), 08s2
  • Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Courses:
    - Linear Algebra (MATH1022), 07s2
    - Multivariable Advanced Calculus (MATH2045), 06s1, 07s1
    - Operations Research (MATH2032), 06s2

Mentored Students

  • Xuefei Li, now Ph.D at University of Queensland, Australia
    » Under my supervision, Xuefei's dissertation work continued to be published in WAIM 2011, and received The Best Student Paper Award.
  • Bo Yang, now Ph.D at UC Santa Barbara, USA
    » Under my supervision, Bo's master thesis was nominated as One of The Best Postgraduate Thesis.
  • Binqing Lv, now East Normal China University, China
    » Under my supervision, Binqing's undergraduate thesis won The Best Undergraduate Thesis Award.
  • Yad Tahir, 3rd year Ph.D student at Imperial College
  • Michael Johnson, 1st year Ph.D student at Imperial College