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Xiaowei GaoProfile page
Research Associate
Department of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Research AssociateDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
TEACHING INTERESTS
Undergraduate Guest Teacher
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
• Delivered weekly tutorials (~40 students, 4 hours/week) and hosted office hours for undergraduate students across the Data Science programme.
• Finalised and maintained tutorial materials using GitFlow and Markdown; supported both formative and summative assessment design and grading.
• Modules Taught:
• DS202 Data Science for Social Scientists (R): Core module for social science students across years 1–3.
• DS105M Data for Data Scientists (Python): Core module for data science students across years 1–3.
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer
University College London (UCL)
Sep 2020 – Present
• Led tutorials (online and in-person) for ~60 MSc students (6 hours/week); facilitated coursework discussions and project supervision.
• Assessed programming coursework and co-supervised 6 MSc dissertations under the guidance of Dr. James Haworth and Prof. Tao Cheng.
• Modules Taught:
• Spatial Analysis and Geocomputation (CEGE0097): Core module for MSc Geospatial Science and MSc Spatio-Temporal Analytics.
• Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis and Data Mining (CEGE0042): Core module for MSc Geospatial Science and Spatio-Temporal Analytics.