Louis Cammarata

Louis Cammarata

Statistics PhD candidate Harvard University

Teaching

Teaching is a unique way to communicate my passion for Statistics and pass on the skills and knowledge that I have received from my teachers. During my Ph.D., I worked as a Teaching Fellow in both graduate and undergraduate Statistics/Probability courses for which I received several Teaching Awards from Harvard College. I also had the opportunity to serve as the Bok Center Statistics Pedagogy Fellow in 2021-2022: my role included training new Teaching Fellows and providing pedagogical support within the Statistics Department.

I am also convinced that innovative teaching is key to promote Statistics and Probability among K-12 students. With the MIT Global Teaching Labs in 2017, I taught probability to high school students in the Jubilee Institute (Amman, Jordan). My 4-week course used fun active learning strategies to introduce deep probability concepts with very little math. For example, students computed the proportion of land on Earth by randomly tossing an inflatable globe!

As an M.Sc. Research Assistant at MIT in 2016-2018, part of my research focused on innovative teaching strategies using MIT BLOSSOMS, an open-source and hands-on educational platform for high school STEM courses co-founded by my academic advisor Prof. Richard Larson (MIT IDSS). I shared in the BLOSSOMS Newsletter how BLOSSOMS proved to be an incredible resource to successfully engage students when I taught Probability at the Jubilee Institute.

Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

  • STAT303: The Art & Practice of Teaching Statistics (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
    • Instructors: Prof. Joe Blitzstein, Prof. Xiao-Li Meng, Prof. Morgane Austern
  • STAT139: Time Series & Prediction (Spring 2021)
    • Instructor: Prof. Tracy Ke
  • STAT210: Probability I (Fall 2020)
    • Instructor: Prof. Joe Blitzstein
  • STAT212: Probability II (Spring 2020)
    • Instructor: Prof. Subhabrata Sen
  • STAT210: Probability I (Fall 2019)
    • Instructor: Prof. Joe Blitzstein

High School Teacher at the Jubilee Institute (Amman, Jordan)

  • Introductory Probability (January 2017)

Oral Examiner at Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris, France)

  • Core Undergraduate Physics course (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
    • Instructor: Prof. Nicolas Schlosser