teaching

CE-ENGIN 260: Probability & Statistics for Civil Engineers

Teaching Assistant — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Fall 2024, Fall 2025

• Led lab sections and weekly office hours covering probability, statistical inference, and experimental design.
• Supported roughly 160 students per semester; graded exams and wrote solution guides and grading rubrics.

CE-ENGIN 310: Transportation Systems

Teaching Assistant — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Fall 2023

• Supported students in transportation operations, network planning, and geometric design; prepared problem sets on traffic flow, capacity analysis, and signal control.

Multiple Civil Engineering Courses

Teaching Assistant — University of Khartoum — November 2018–December 2020

Taught and led tutorials for undergraduate courses:

• Environmental Engineering
• Highway Engineering
• Strength of Materials
• Reinforced Concrete Design
• Theory of Structures

Supervised lab sessions on water quality analysis and material testing.

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program

Research Mentor — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Summers 2023–2026

• Julianna Demers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Summer 2026: Unified geospatial data pipeline for schematic bicycle map generation. (1 paper in preparation)
• Andrew Ruger (Grinnell College), Summer 2025: Survey data quality and micromobility mapping; bot detection in incentivized online surveys. (1 paper published, 1 paper under review)
• Geehan Altayb (Howard University), Summer 2024: Bicycle map features and their influence on cycling behavior. (1 paper published)
• Vivian Rost-Nasshan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Summer 2023: Vehicular delay patterns using network topology and demographic data. (1 paper in preparation)

Independent Research Mentorship

Research Mentor — University of Massachusetts Amherst — Spring 2026

• Henry Bell (UMass Amherst), Spring 2026: Comprehensive literature review on barriers to cycling. (1 publication, under review)