Matahari Herwin

About Me

I'm a second year graduate student at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where I also got my Bachelor's degree in 2022. I'm currently working under Professor Joshua Clayton, assisting him with delivering lectures and leading workshop sessions for the Introduction to Computer Programming class at NYU Courant. You can best reach me through email or during my office hours (hours posted on class website).

Teaching Experience

New York University

I assist Professor Joshua Clayton in delivering lectures to more than a hundred undergraduate students each semester. My responsibilities encompass leading workshop sessions, grading exams, and conducting weekly office hours. The course covers a range of topics, including Python basics, control structures, loops, file I/O, dictionaries, and object-oriented programming (OOP).

I served as a teaching assistant for a combined undergraduate and graduate section of Human-Computer Interaction at NYU Tandon, under Professor Ray Lutzky. My responsibilities included addressing student inquiries and evaluating assignments. The course covered various topics, such as affordances, personas, usability testing, service design, and prototyping.

I was a tutor for Professor Joshua Clayton's Drawing on the Web class. In this class, students explore ways in which markup language, style language, and programming language can be applied to generate interactive, web-based graphics. I led weekly 5-hour tutoring sessions, assisting students with topics such as SVG animation, JavaScript, Web APIs, HTML Canvas, and WebGL.

I was a tutor for six sections of the Introduction to Web Design class. Over the course of the semester, I provided assistance to more than 130 students, guiding them in mastering HTML/CSS basics, raster/vector graphics, responsive design, and JavaScript. I also worked as a grader for CSCI-UA 4 during the Spring 2021 (Professor Joshua Clayton) and Spring 2023 (Professor Julie Lizardo) semesters.
Miscellaneous

I was an instructor/mentor to over 50 girls in grades 9-12 for Generation Girl's holiday clubs. Each club spanned a week, culminating in a final project presentation. I designed lesson plans for all my classes, continuously refining them based on student feedback. I covered the fundamentals of Python (programming), the basics of website creation using HTML and CSS (web development), as well as research and prototyping using Figma (UI/UX Design).

I tutored eight college students in Math (Algebra and Calculus), Programming (Python), and Music Theory. I conducted weekly one-hour tutoring sessions for each student and crafted customized lesson plans to enhance their comprehension of the respective subjects.

Projects

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Skills

  • Teaching
  • Web design and development
  • Python programming
  • Project management
  • UX design and research
  • A/B testing
  • Data visualization and analysis
  • Usability testing