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Professor Vlahu likes to teach and is always there to answer questions. However, most of the time she talks about random things and looses her chain of thought, it feels like you are lost in the middle of her lectures. Plus she sometimes chooses the hard way to explain things. It can be really tiring.
University of Saskatchewan - Mathematics Statistics
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Vlahu, PhD
Canada
Applied math PhD, passionate about finding original quantitive solutions to real-life problems with a keen interest to mentor others and learn new techniques as demonstrated by research results in multidisciplinary setting and diverse teaching experience. Excellent communicator and public speaker able to address both technical and non-technical audiences as done at numerous conferences, conventions and public fora.
Lecturer
Designed and delivered courses in Linear Algebra, pre-Calculus, and Euclidean Geometry to over 200 students and successfully managed a team of markers and teaching assistants.
Lecturer
Delivered Integral Calculus to over 80 students in a coordinated team setting.
PHD Student
Developed novel, customizable, fast transforms for the representation and analysis of discrete data that follow some continuous function (such as sound waves or images), together with fast algorithms for numerical implementation (in Matlab).
Demonstrated ability to work in a multidisciplinary setting, providing mathematical solutions to problems emerging from engineering.
Exercised strong communication skills by presenting research results to numerous scientific conferences.
Teaching Assistant
Delivered weekly tutorials in a multitude of undergraduate courses to over 2000 students in both Engineering and Arts & Science. Selected courses include Calculus I, II, III, IV, Euclidean Geometry.
Gained indispensable skills in delivering highly technical concepts in non-technical down-to-earth language, appealing to the intuition of the learner rather than background knowledge.
Volunteered to deliver weekly tutorials to over 600 students in Linear Algebra and Finite Mathematics. My method of teaching was extremely well received, as evidenced by the significant increase in success rate, from roughly 50% passing the courses to over 90%.
Mathematics Educator
Organized and delivered professional training in Quantitative Methods in Economics (Linear programming, Markov chains, Game theory, Transportation problems).
President and General Manager (Elected Position)
Obtained strong leadership skills by representing graduate students, as an elected representative, in a multitude of University committees, as well as committees within the student organization. In particular, I served on the Presidential Search Committee that appointed the current President of the University of Saskatchewan.
Gained public speaking skills by delivering monthly reports on the activities of the Association and graduate student issues in public fora such as the University Council, the University Academic Assembly, as well as media outlets.
Proved to posses strong managerial skills by effectively directing the Executive committee, the staff, and the organization in general, as evidenced by the successful completion of the first professional audit, the timely delivery of detailed monthly updates to the Board of Directors, the implementation of new services.
Gained invaluable organization and fundraising skills by organizing various student events such as conferences, competitions, social events.
Vice President Academic (Elected Position)
Proved emotional intelligence and strategic thinking by mentoring and advocating for students facing academic challenges and/or disciplinary consequences.
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Applied Mathematics
Ph.D. thesis: "The Orthogonal Band Decomposition of the finite Dirichlet matrix and its Applications."
Master of Science - MS
Mathematics
M.Sc. thesis: "Higher Kaplansky theory."
Dean's Scholarship (6 years)
Graduate Teaching Fellowship (1 year)
Teacher Scholar Doctoral Fellowship (1 year)
Lecturer
Designed and delivered courses in Linear Algebra, pre-Calculus, and Euclidean Geometry to over 200 students and successfully managed a team of markers and teaching assistants.
Lecturer
Delivered Integral Calculus to over 80 students in a coordinated team setting.
PHD Student
Developed novel, customizable, fast transforms for the representation and analysis of discrete data that follow some continuous function (such as sound waves or images), together with fast algorithms for numerical implementation (in Matlab).
Demonstrated ability to work in a multidisciplinary setting, providing mathematical solutions to problems emerging from engineering.
Exercised strong communication skills by presenting research results to numerous scientific conferences.
Teaching Assistant
Delivered weekly tutorials in a multitude of undergraduate courses to over 2000 students in both Engineering and Arts & Science. Selected courses include Calculus I, II, III, IV, Euclidean Geometry.
Gained indispensable skills in delivering highly technical concepts in non-technical down-to-earth language, appealing to the intuition of the learner rather than background knowledge.
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude
Mathematics
New Opportunity Grant (4 years)
Dean's list (4 years)
President's List (4 years)
Volunteered to deliver weekly tutorials to over 600 students in Linear Algebra and Finite Mathematics. My method of teaching was extremely well received, as evidenced by the significant increase in success rate, from roughly 50% passing the courses to over 90%.