Xiang 'Jacob' Yan

Teaching

             Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.       — Aristotle

Instructor

CGN 4905/6905 Applied Data Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fall 2021, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida [View Course Evaluation]

Teach students the intricacies of data science techniques and their applications to real-world problems. Students will also learn the basics of problem formulation and data ethics. [View syllabus]

Classroom is made of 3 undergrads, 4 master’s students, and 5 PhD students [View Student Final Project Posters]

   

Graduate Student Instructor

UP 504 Introduction to Statistics for Urban Planning

Fall 2014, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan

Worked as a teaching assistant to Prof. Margi Dewar, who experiment with a flipped classroom model for this course

Rating [View course evaluation]: 4.73/5

I cannot thank Jacob enough for all the hard work he put into this course. …He also clearly explained concepts during office hours. Jacob was also enthusiastic and realistic in his approach to the material. He cut the clutter when we over-thought formulas, and helped us focus on the key pieces of them.” – A quote from a student.

   

Guest lecturer

Highway Safety Analysis

Fall 2020, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida

Lecture title “Spatial big data applications in travel safety research and practice”

 

Transportation Data Analytics

Fall 2020 & 2021, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment, University of Florida

Lecture title “Spatial data analysis and mapping with R”

 

Colloquium

Fall 2020, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida

Lecture title “Designing and conducting a dissertation research project”

   

Teacher

AP Statistics, GRE Analytical Writing, GMAT Analytical Writing

2012-2013, Nanjing New Oriental School, China

Taught 32 classes (20 hours per class) and 363 students, received average rating of 4.7