Teaching

• 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.