Mentoring, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2024
2024. I am mentoring a team of 3 undergraduate students from Biology and Psychology in a year-long research project titled Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as models of the visual system. The students were awarded a grant for the project by the Program of Support for Student Research.
Mentoring, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2021
2021. I mentored a team of 3 undergraduate students from Biology in a year-long research project, titled Neural networks and face masks: Face perception during COVID-19. The students were awarded a grant for the project by the Program of Support for Student Research, and they presented their results at the 2021 program conference. Link to the poster.
Graduate, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica, 2021
2021. I was a teaching assistant in the first edition of this 7-week graduate course. I designed and implemented, with the other TA, the notebooks for the practical classes (link to notebooks), that include the course evaluations, and we led those classes. Course website
Graduate, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2021
2021. I taught an invited lecture on dynamical systems modeling for the masters course “Mathematical methods for Cognitive Science”. I used modeling of epidemic dynamics as an example, and designed and implemented a Jupyter notebook to teach the class. (Link to Jupyter notebook).
Graduate course, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2021
2021. I taught an invited lecture on data analysis in the Systems Neuroscience graduate course, where I where I introduced students to generalized linear models, and mixed models for data analysis. Slides
Undergraduate, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2017
2017-2022. I taught several lectures and a psychophysics tutorial in this course for advanced biology and biochemistry students. I taught the course lectures on the Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, Visceral motor control, Memory and Learning, Information Theory and Neural Coding, and a tutorial on psychophysical data analysis.
Undergraduate, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2017
2017-2024. I teach a lecture and a discussion class about perception science in this course for first and second year biology students. I also wrote a chapter for the book by the same name as the course, published by the course coordinators. The chapter, found here, is titled Is the world as we see it? and discusses broad concepts in perception and neuroscience, accessible to a general educated audience.
Undergraduate, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la Republica, 2017
2017-2022. I taught lectures, led discussion groups, and designed and led a 3-class neuron biophysics simulation lab in this course for advanced biology and biochemistry students. I taught lectures on the biophysical underpinnings of neuronal electrophysiology, and led the simulation labs using the NEURON simulator to explore these biophysical principles.
Undergraduate, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de la Republica, 2013
2013-2016. I was a teaching assistant in 1st and 3rd year biochemistry courses for medical students (note: Medical School is 7 years long in Uruguay, with years 1 to 3 being equivalent to pre-med undergraduate studies). I taught topics in physical chemistry, biochemistry and human physiology. I also led and organized practical laboratory classes on a variety of topics. This teaching was done in the context of my teaching position at the Biochemistry Department of the Faculty of Medicine.
