Teaching

SDSU Ness School of Management and Economics

ECON 202 – Principles of Macroeconomics (FA 2026)

ECON 330 – Money and Banking (FA 2026)

UIUC Department of Economics

Teaching Awards

• Robert E. Demarest Memorial Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 (awarded annually to one graduate student in Economics)
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2025 (awarded annually to six students in the entire LAS college)
• UIUC Campus-Wide Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2025 (awarded annually to five students in the entire campus)
• Graduate Teacher Certificate, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2026
• Honorable Mention, Career Influencer Award, 2026 (recognizes faculty mentioned between five and nine times in the 2024–2025 Illini Success Survey)

Courses

ECON 490 – International Trade (Undergraduate, Independent Instructor: FA 2023*, SP 2024*, FA 2024*, SP 2025*)

ECON 502 – Econometrics (Master, Teaching Assistant: SP 2023*)

ECON 502 – Economic Statistics (Master, Teaching Assistant: FA 2022*)

ECON 302 – Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate, Teaching Assistant: FA 2020*, SP 2021*, FA 2021, SP 2022)

* Included in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”.

UIUC Department of Computer Science

CS 101 – Introduction to Computing for Engineers and Scientists (Class Assistant)

Teaching Material

International Trade (Undergraduate)

1. 1.1 Overview of Trade Issues
2. 1.2 Gravity Model Intuition
3. 2.1 Ricardian Model I
4. 2.2 Ricardian Model II
5. 2.3 Ricardian Model III
6. 3.1 Specific Factors Model I
7. 3.2 Specific Factors Model II
8. 4.1 The Heckscher-Ohlin Model I
9. 4.2 The Heckscher-Ohlin Model II
10. 5. External Economies of Scale
11. 6.1 Internal Economies of Scale / Firms and International Trade I
12. 6.2 Internal Economies of Scale / Firms and International Trade II
13. 7.1 Offshoring of Goods and Services I
14. 7.2 Offshoring of Goods and Services II
15. 8.1 Trade Policy I
16. 8.2 Trade Policy II
17. 9.1 The Political Economy of Trade Policy I
18. 9.2 The Political Economy of Trade Policy II
19. 10. Trade Issues in Developing Countries

Intermediate Microeconomics – Discussion (Undergraduate)

1. Week 1 – Math Review
2. Week 2 – Supply and Demand
3. Week 3 – Elasticity
4. Week 4 – Indifference Curve
5. Week 5 – Budget Constraint and Consumer Equilibrium
6. Week 6 – Corner Solution: Buy One Get One Free
7. Week 7 – Substitution and Income Effects
8. Week 8 – Modeling Production
9. Week 9 – Modeling Costs
10. Week 10 – Iso-cost and Iso-quant Model
11. Week 11 – Revenue and Profit
12. Week 12 – Competition in the Short Run
13. Week 13 – Competition in the Long Run
14. Weeks 14–15 – Single Price Monopoly Model and Perfect Price Discrimination
15. Week 16 – Price Discrimination