I am Palash, a scientist with a long and continuing association with academia. I have a Bachelors and Masters Dual Degree in Electrical Engineering/Microelectronics from IIT Bombay. I got my PhD (Physics) from the University of Rochester, followed by postdoc work at ETH Zurich. (read more)
...I coached 3rd and 4th graders at local and regional competitions and MOEMS ... 5th and 6th graders at AMC-8 ... 6th graders at MATHCOUNTS Chapter and State competitions ... and 7th and 8th graders at all of those contests. And more. I'm also a teacher at Art of Problem Solving Academy -- teaching middle-school and high-school contest math, Algebra 1, prealgebra, and honors 5th-grade math. (read more)
...I have directed 33 productions over the course of 30 years of teaching. Of the 5 times that my students entered the English Speaking Union's Monologue and Sonnet Contest, two of my students won first place in 2002 and 2003 and one student won second place in 2004. As I was a college counselor f... (read more)
...I want to guide my students through learning until they build the confidence and study skills to do it themselves; I see my job as being to teach, not to do their work for them. I enjoy the 1-on-1 tutoring environment as I can customize my approach with each student. With a visual learner, we can draw out the steps of mitosis. (read more)
...I also took basic stats as an undergraduate. I am a microbiology Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. As an undergraduate, I majored in microbiology (and minored in chemistry) and took a semester-long introductory biochemistry class. (read more)