Classes

In addition to official course codes, alternate common names are include in parentheses (e.g., COMPSCI 50 is commonly known as CS50).

Spring 2023

• GENED 1115: Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World
• MBB 980V: Neuroimaging and Big Data in Connectomics: Advances in Understanding the Wiring of the Brain
• PHIL 147: Philosophy of Language
• PHYSCI 3: Electromagnetism, Circuits, Waves, Optics, and Imaging
• STAT 141: Introduction to Spatial Statistics

Fall 2022

• STAT 244: General Linear Models
• ANTHRO 1716: Neoliberalism
• STAT 994: Senior Thesis Tutorial
• GENED 1069: Faith and Authenticity
• PHIL 34: Existentialism in Film and Literature

Spring 2022

• STAT 234: Sequential Decision Making
• STAT 171: Introduction to Stochastic Processes
  • Well taught and clear
• LING 106: Knowledge of Meaning
• NEURO 140: Biological and Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2021

• STAT 185: Introduction to Unsupervised Learning
  • The theoretical foundation from this class informed my research with the Murray lab at HSPH.
• PHYSCI 2 (PS2): Mechanics, Elasticity, Fluids, and Diffusion
• NEURO 80: Neurobiology of Behavior
  • Would highly recommend as basic overview of brain function
  • Very interesting guest speakers
• LING 105: Sounds of Language
  • Many take this for the QRD requirement and not for a Ling requirement; expect review of introductory concepts
  • Significantly more difficult with time (topic of inferring language evolution may pose challenges)
  • One of my favorite classes
  • Well taught, with an emphasis on learning foundational concepts and applying them to more specific cases

Spring 2021

• Virtual semester due to Harvard’s COVID-19 social distancing measures
• SOC-STD 68EA: Engaged Philosophy: The Theory and Practice of Altruism
• COMPSCI 181: Introduction to Machine Learning
• CHEM 27: Organic Chemistry of Life
• EXPOS 40: Public Speaking Practicum
• LIFESCI 1B (LS1b): An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences

Summer 2020

• Virtual semester due to Harvard’s COVID-19 social distancing measures
• CHEM S-17: Principles of Organic Chemistry

Fall 2020

• Virtual semester due to Harvard’s COVID-19 social distancing measures
• STAT 210: Probability I
• STAT 139: Introduction to Linear Models
• MCB 60: Cellular Biology and Molecular Medicine
  • Very interesting concepts, though how the class fits together can be unintuitive
• LING 83: Language, Structure, and Cognition
• GENED 1093: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares?

Spring 2020

• Universal Pass/Fail to Harvard’s decision to send students home prior to Spring Break
• STAT 111: Introduction to Statistics
• MATH 25A: Theoretical Linear Algebra and Real Analysis II
• GENED 1046: Evolving Morality: From Primordial Soup to Superintelligent Machines
• PHYSCI 11 (PS11): Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Chemistry
• EXPOS 20: Expository Writing. Section: Philosophical Films

Fall 2019

• First-year advisor: Boaz Barak
• STAT 110: Introduction to Probability
• MATH 25A: Theoretical Linear Algebra and Real Analysis I
• LIFESCI 1A (LS1a): An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
• COMPSCI 50 (CS50): Introduction to Computer Science