Teaching+ Mentorship
Teaching
Sophia has been teaching in some capacity for: Loading.... She hopes to continue.
Currently, she is working as a TA for Cluster 73 at UCLA.
The cluster program initiative is designed to help first-year students successfully transition to UCLA. Unlike other GE courses offered at the university, Clusters are year-long, collaboratively taught, interdisciplinary, and open to entering first-year students only.
Cluster 73 is called “Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?” and examines how scientific and technological understandings of the brain—drawing from neurobiology, psychology, and philosophy—shape concepts of memory, learning, consciousness, and mental health. Through interdisciplinary analysis, students explore the historical and contemporary development of brain science alongside critiques from disability studies and representations in literature and film.
In the Fall and Winter Sophia leads 2 two-hour discussion sections for the cluster. In the Spring she teaches her own offshoot of the class called “Brain as Database: Understanding Neural Pathways and Computational Thinking” that meets once a week for three hours.
Mentorship
2025
- UCLA Undergraduate Research Week - Billy Peir and Aditya Patil: “Using Large Language Models to Disambiguate Holocaust Interview Testimonies” (With Aileen Tang)
- UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research: Best research project completed for the Cluster Program – Aidan Teeling: Borderline Bias: Gender Disparities and The Male Experience of BPD
Resources
- You can find the TA Syllabus for the Fall/Winter iteration of the discussion sections here.
- You can find the Syllabus for the Spring 2025 iteration of Brain as Database here.
Sophia has been teaching in some capacity for: Loading.... She hopes to continue.
Currently, she is working as a TA for Cluster 73 at UCLA.
The cluster program initiative is designed to help first-year students successfully transition to UCLA. Unlike other GE courses offered at the university, Clusters are year-long, collaboratively taught, interdisciplinary, and open to entering first-year students only.
Cluster 73 is called “Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?” and examines how scientific and technological understandings of the brain—drawing from neurobiology, psychology, and philosophy—shape concepts of memory, learning, consciousness, and mental health. Through interdisciplinary analysis, students explore the historical and contemporary development of brain science alongside critiques from disability studies and representations in literature and film.
In the Fall and Winter Sophia leads 2 two-hour discussion sections for the cluster. In the Spring she teaches her own offshoot of the class called “Brain as Database: Understanding Neural Pathways and Computational Thinking” that meets once a week for three hours.
Mentorship
2025
- UCLA Undergraduate Research Week - Billy Peir and Aditya Patil: “Using Large Language Models to Disambiguate Holocaust Interview Testimonies” (With Aileen Tang)
- UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research: Best research project completed for the Cluster Program – Aidan Teeling: Borderline Bias: Gender Disparities and The Male Experience of BPD
Resources
- You can find the TA Syllabus for the Fall/Winter iteration of the discussion sections here.
- You can find the Syllabus for the Spring 2025 iteration of Brain as Database here.