Experienced STEM and CS Tutor | PhD Graduate at MIT

Nelson H.

I am a third-year PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, with a Master’s degree in Computer Science (MIT, 2025) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Neuroscience (MIT, 2023). I maintained a 5.0 GPA and received several competitive scholarships, including the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, Barry Goldwater Scholarship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and Amazon Day One Fellowship.
I have over six years of teaching and tutoring experience across middle school, high school, college, and graduate levels, in classroom, small-group, one-on-one, and virtual settings. At MIT, I served as a lesson assistant for Introduction to Machine Learning for two semesters (2021–2022, ~10 hours/week) and as a teaching assistant for the graduate course Affective Computing and Multimodal Intelligence (Fall 2024, ~5 hours/week), where I guided students through advanced projects. Previously, I completed over 400 hours as a mentor and STEM tutor with AmeriCorps Excellence in STEM at Miami Dade College (2019), leading hands-on workshops in virtual prototyping and Arduino programming for high school and college students. I have also worked as a private tutor for middle and high school students in math and science.
My teaching approach emphasizes building intuition through hands-on, learning-by-doing methods, meeting students at their current level, and strengthening foundational concepts for long-term mastery. I am experienced in both in-person and online instruction and specialize in using visualization tools to make math and science concepts more accessible. Drawing on my own experience navigating highly competitive admissions and scholarship processes involving 1 to 3 % acceptance rates, I also mentor students on academic planning and long-term STEM goals.