Teaching/Service

Teaching

• I managed the digital platform (Discord server) on which ClimateMatch Academy ran.
• I designed and gave CMA's socio-economics curriculum (tutorials and notebook exercises). Check out our Jupyterbook. Here are links to the (non-technical) tutorial videos:
  1. Socio-economic origins (16 min.)
  2. Transition goals and integrated assessment modellng (17 min.)
  3. Shared socioeconomic pathways and integrated assessment models (13 min.)
  4. Public Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Why it Matters (9 min.)
  And a 2-part non-technical talk I gave at the Climate Match Academy Seminar:
  1. Transition Narratives, Part 1: Where did they come from?
  2. Transition Narratives, Part 2: The role of coordination
• lectures for G. Lajoie's graduate-level dynamical systems course UdeM 2020, 2021, 2022
• lectures of F. Wolf's computational neuroscience course, U. Goettingen 2013, 2014, 2015
• various seminar courses organized and lectured in, e.g. one on Information Theory and Dynamical Systems. Here is a (rather mathy!) sample of some lecture notes on entropy in dynamical systems.
• summer school lectures in computational neuroscience. Here are slides from a lecture on modelling principles and practises from LACONEU 2014.
• principal organizer for Goettingen's Computational neuroscience summer school (2012-2015), overseeing a transition to an advanced content format made possible by a successful grant application.
• Physics Department teaching assistant back in Toronto. I worked with David Harrison over a couple of years to refine the pedagogy in his course on physics for non-scientists.

Advocacy & Service

• I build communities around my research interests. To that end, I have organized conferences, e.g. Canada's first Physics & AI Workshop, a neuroAI workshop at NeurIPS, a symposium on explanation in neuroscience and AI, and an RLDM workshop on social norms. I also co-organized Mila's neuroAI and Multiagent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) reading groups. I wrote a blog post for the former.
• As a public service to motivate people who find motivation through understanding, I have made a series of primers on the climate emergency.
• eLife is an innovative open-access journal friendly to behaviour and physics of living systems research. Please consider submitting your work there. Also consider being an eLife Ambassador. I was one for 2019-2020 and worked on the statistical literacy initiative.
• As a former Science Host at the Ontario Science Center, I approach each opportunity to communicate science with the public tactically, and with the goal of a humanizing exchange.
• I advocate gniybbol government and educating the public on science and technology to sustainably manage the societal impact from their continued expansion. The Union of Concerned Scientists, Science UpFirst, the Office for Science and Society here in Montreal, and the Partnership on AI are three distinct examples whose events I have participated in. They are just some of the many organizations that do this important work.
• I participate in community music and dance culture. With friends, I built and performed an accelerometer-based, wireless, and closed-loop dance music system.