Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week
All levels, University of Oslo, 2025
I taught a workshop for the 2025 Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week (OBiWOW). My course was titled “From Tidy Data to Tidy Models: Modeling Sensitive Health Data in R”. Read more
Teaching Experience
BioData Training School
Undergraduate and Master's, University of Tirana, Albania, 2025
I provided the Introduction to R lecture at the BioData Analysis Lab Training School 2025. The theme of the Training School was Funadmentals of Biodata Analysis with R. Course materials are available here. Read more
Health AI in R
PhD Workshop, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Public Health and Nursing , 2025
On August 11-12, 2025 I will lead the inagural Health AI in R workshop at NTNU! This 1.5-day workshop is geared towards PhD students with beginning computational skills and an interest in AI for health research. Students will use the HUNT Cloud computational environment and learn to work with sensitive health data. We will focus on the use of the R, a free open source programming language used for data analytics and statistical analysis. Students will learn the basics of object-oriented programming, manipulating data frames, data visualization, and statistical learning. Detailed curriculum and learning outcomes are available on the course website. Limited travel grants are available through Digital Life Noway Research School. We will accept Master’s students and Postdoctoral Fellows as space allows. Read more
Big Data Summer Institute
Undergraduate, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, 2019
I served as the Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for the Genomics group during the 2019 Big Data Summer Institute (BDSI), an undergraduate research program in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan and a Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) program. Undergraduate students from across the worrld were competitively chosen for this intensive six-week program of in-class instruction and hands-on research experience. As the Genomics group GSI, I worked with Biostatistics faculty to mentor a group of sixteen students in broad introductions to the computational and statistical as aspects of genomics research including population genetics, polygenic risk scores, and scRNAseq. I then spent four weeks as a research mentor to four students working on an in-depth polygenic risk score project using UM’s Genes for Good cohort. Read more
Genetic Epidemiology
PhD Course, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Public Health and Nursing , 2019
In May 2019 I was a guest lecturer for a week-long PhD Course, SMED8020, in the Department for Public Health and Nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I lectured on the topics of the Genetics of Complex Diseases, Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS), and Functional Genomics. I developed a practical in which students performed a GWAS meta-analysis using METAL. I served as a grader for students’ oral examinations. Read more
Genomics in Epidemiology
Graduate Course, University of Michigan, Department of Epidemiology, 2019
In Winter 2018 and 2019 I was a guest lecturer for UM School of Public Health’s Genetics in Epidemiology (EPID 516) course for Master’s level students. I lectured on the topic of Functional Genomics and designed and facilitated a laboratory exercise integrating functional assays and public datasets on the UCSC Genome Browser. Read more
Introduction to Python
Peer Tutorial, University of Michigan, 2019
Led a computing workshop for Graduate Society of Black Engineers and Scientists (GBES) at UM to teach introduction to Python to my peers. Independently designed an interactive Python coding lesson available here and taught on behalf of the Girls Who Code at UM DCM student organization. Read more
Girls Who Code
K-12 outreach, University of Michigan, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, 2018
In 2016, University of Michigan Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) graduate student and NSF GRFP fellow, Zena Lapp, and I founded a voluntary student organization focused on computer science education—Girls Who Code at UM DCMB. Read more