Teaching — Adventure — Christopher Z. Cui

The Seminar Room

A whiteboard runs along one wall, marker-streaked from a decade of office hours. A stack of graded problem sets leans against a chair. Course rosters tile a corkboard.

CSE 190: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

Spring 2026 · University of California, San Diego · Dr. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Graduate Teaching Assistant for CSE 190: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning at UC San Diego under Dr. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu. The course introduces undergraduates to the foundations of RL — Markov decision processes, policy gradients, value-based methods — and modern deep RL, including the techniques that underpin RLHF and post-training of LLMs.

Duties included:
- Holding office hours and discussion sections.
- Designing and grading homework assignments and project rubrics.
- Mentoring student final projects on RL algorithms and applications.
- Answering questions on the class forum.
CSE 291: AI Agents

Winter 2026 · University of California, San Diego · Dr. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Graduate Teaching Assistant for CSE 291: AI Agents at UC San Diego under Dr. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu. The course covers the foundations and frontier of agentic systems built on top of foundation models — reasoning, planning, tool use, multi-turn interaction, RL for agents, and the open research questions that come with them.

Duties included:
- Holding office hours and discussion sections.
- Designing and grading homework assignments and project rubrics.
- Mentoring student final projects on agentic systems and LLM-based pipelines.
- Answering questions on the class forum.
CS6601: Artificial Intelligence; CS3600: Introduction to AI

Fall 2023 – Summer 2024 · Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing · Drs. Thomas Ploetz, Thad Starner, Rodrigo Borela Valente
Head Graduate TA for CS6601: AI (Fall 2023, Dr. Thomas Ploetz; Spring 2024 + Summer 2024, Drs. Thad Starner and Rodrigo Borela Valente) and CS3600: Intro to AI (Spring 2024, Dr. Starner).

Responsibilities included:
- Leading a team of twenty to thirty Teaching Assistants.
- Managing logistics for combined classes of over a thousand students.
- Serving as a substitute lecturer.
- Creating course material and developing tools for scaling classrooms.
CS7650: Natural Language Processing

Summer 2023 · Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing · Dr. Mark Riedl
Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS7650: Natural Language Processing under Dr. Mark Riedl in Summer 2023.

Responsibilities included:
- Helping students with course material and debugging coding assignments.
- Designing exam questions.
- Answering student questions on the class forum.
- Assisting with assignment design and quality control.
CS6601: Artificial Intelligence; CS3600: Introduction to AI

Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 · Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing · Drs. Thomas Ploetz, Thad Starner
Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS6601: AI under Dr. Thomas Ploetz (Fall 2022) and for CS6601 + CS3600 under Dr. Thad Starner (Spring 2023) at Georgia Tech.

Responsibilities included:
- Holding office hours to help students with course material and debugging.
- Designing and grading exam questions.
- Answering student questions on the class forum.
- Providing in-class walkthroughs for assignments.

Obvious exits

look (back to the office)about — the placard publications — the preprint stack talks — the slide deck teaching — the seminar room cv — the cabinet of dossiers