Taseef Rahman

For a duration of 3 years, I was appointed as the Graduate Teaching Assistant in the

Department of Computer science. As a part of my job, I conducted weekly labs and prepared questions for weekly/bi-weekly quizzes for 70+ undergraduate students for 2 different

Computer Science subjects. The weekly preparation of lab lectures and quizzes were immense for me to further strengthen my experience and boosting my confidence in teaching at the same time. Subsequently I had the immense opportunity to build and develop basic programming competency for undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds and skill sets.

Besides, I also had the chance to engage one-on-one with the students in office hours where I provided significant support through helping them appreciate any particular problem and giving useful suggestions that would conveniently guide them to solve the given problem. Besides I also conducted weekly grading of the programming assignments which were another opportunity for me to provide feedback to help out students improving their programming capability.

During my time as a PhD student, I had the great opportunity to conduct research in the field of Bioinformatics; specifically Representation Learning for Protein Conformation Sampling.

This resulted in 5 peer reviewed publications in reputed journals/conferences. During the process, I also had the opportunity to collaborate with talented Undergraduate students which helped me appreciate as to how to guide them through any particular research problems and subsequently providing them with useful guidance/feedback which they could use for the successful completion of the project at hand. During this time, I took inspiration from my advisor as to how to advise and supervise students with a view to conduct impactful research and subsequently provide prompt and honest feedback on student’s work.

I firmly believe that my research experiences and publication history well-exhibit my potential to teach various courses in Computer Science.

Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant

Doctorate in Computer Science @George Mason University