Teaching Philosophy

I aim to show the power of mathematical methods in the practical application of Machine Learning and to show Machine Learning scientific research principles to graduate and undergraduate students. I join students, their senior mates, and experienced researchers in productive research groups.

I plan to continue and expand my course, "My First Scientific Paper." The goal of the course is to introduce students to the technologies of scientific research. The course teaches how to plan, perform, and present research results. It provides formats acknowledged by other researchers. Each student works with an advisor and a consultant to learn how to formally state research problems, find adequate references, and generate novel and significant ideas for problem-solving. The expected outcome of the course is a research paper submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

The course has been successfully delivered during the last eight years. Each year 15-30 students perform their research projects. Each project ends with a scientific paper, a code, a presentation, and a video. The course has a repository with over ​500 projects and its ​YouTube channel​. I believe this course contributes to educational science and citizen science.

I plan to continue working with Ph.D. students to produce high-quality applied and theoretical research papers and theses.