🎉 Our lab is currently recruiting undergraduate students! Applications are due at 11:59pm, October 11th, 2024. Please see our Apply page for more details.
The Data Science Teaching and Learning Lab (DSTL, pronounced “distill”) at UCSD conducts research studies and prototypes novel tools for teaching and learning data science. The overarching goal of our group is to discover how instructors use (or struggle to use!) software tools to accomplish the many tasks of teaching, and design new tools that can improve the lives of data science instructors everywhere.
What we do: Our group applies methods from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to understand how instructors use software by conducting interviews and usability studies. We also build and maintain software tools like Pandas Tutor, used by over 20,000 people per year.
Who we are: Our group is led by professor Samuel Lau in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego and a small (but mighty!) team of undergraduate students:
- Christopher Lum 😁
- Ylesia (Yi Xing) Wu
- Guoxuan (Jason) Xu
- Andrew Hudson Yang
- Qirui (Sara) Zheng
- Ayush Shah
- Gabriel Cha
- Achintya Rai
- Abhi Sathvika Goriparthy
- Owen Miller
- Michelle Hong
- Parna Praveen