Education Projects

Here are the major educational initiatives I am currently leading or participating in.

Course-Based Undergraduate Research Framework (CURE)

Curriculum Development

Undergraduate Research

Starting Fall 2025, as a part of the working group headed by Prof. Rohini Qamra, I learned about the CURE framework and discussed ways to implement it in math courses. It is a challenging proposition to incorporate full CURE framework for a typical math course with 120 students. In Fall, I did a soft version in Linear Algebra with Applications via coding projects at the end of the semester. In Spring 20206, I plan to implement a similar project-based learning in both of the Core classes I am teaching: From data To Discovery and Great Ideas In Mathematics.

Custom Gen AI Tutor for Linear Algebra

Curriculum Development

In Fall 2025, together with the office of Strategic Initiatives and Planning at NYU IT, we initiated a pilot program to incorporate Gen. AI Tutor trained on the textbook and other course-related documents, for one section of Linear Algebra. The tutor is designed to give only hints and suggestions and never the full answers right away. It guides the students towards solutions, which effectively improves their understanding of the material. Analysis of the data collected from that semester is underway and will be used to refine the Tutor for the upcoming Spring 2026 semester.

Restructuring Linear Algebra

Curriculum Development

Traditional way of teaching Linear Algebra, at most colleges, follows covering certain foundational material from standard textbooks like those by Strang or Lay. While this approach has been the mainstay of undergraduate curriculum, it no longer serves for the benefit of the large number of majors who are opting to learn Linear Algebra for multiple reasons. For one, the traditional approach leans too much towards theoretical aspects and secondly, in this day and age, it makes more sense to give students a glimpse of its foundational role in data science, machine learning, and applications in general.