Teaching Seminar: Teaching in Computer Science: A Personal Perspective

Abstract: In this talk, I will go over my experiences as an undergraduate and graduate TA and discuss my ideas regarding the practice of teaching. I will then demonstrate some of these ideas through a teaching demonstration where I introduce breath-first search (BFS) in an Algorithms class and how it may be applied to solve problems that may seem non-trivial. 

Bio: Muhammad Hammad Mazhar is a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on improvement of various Internet-based services, such as Quality of Experience (QoE) inference for encrypted video streaming, characterizing smart home IoT traffic patterns and issues, and securing enterprise Wi-Fi configurations. Hammad has published work in major conferences such as IEE INFOCOM, ACM/IEEE IoTDI and ACM CCS. Hammad currently works on analyzing safety and security issues in IoT systems, utilizing policy enforcement approaches.