Ethan P. Marzban
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Courses I’ve Taught:

I’ve had the honor of serving as a Teaching Associate for six quarters across four different classes. Teaching Associate is a title given to graduate students who are serving as the sole and primary instructor for a given course. Duties as a Teaching Associate include: creation of course content (lectures, homework assignments, lab handouts, etc.), managing TAs, and issuing final letter grades.

As a proponent of open-source teaching, most of my material from when I teach courses remains publicly accessible through a series of GitHub pages (linked below).

If you would like to adopt any of my material for your course, please contact me first. In general, I am happy to share my source material with you - I mainly only ask for attribution. Thank you!

  • PSTAT 5A: Understanding Data

    • Summer Session A, 2023: https://pstat5a-archives.github.io/Summer24/index3.html
    • Spring 2023: https://pstat5a-archives.github.io/Spring23/index2.html

  • PSTAT 100: Data Science - Concepts and Analysis

    • Summer Session A, 2025: https://ucsb-pstat100.github.io/
    • Spring 2024: http://ucsb-pstat100-archives.github.io/

  • PSTAT 120A: Introduction to Probability

    • Summer Session A, 2022: https://pstat120a.github.io/

  • PSTAT 120B: Mathematical Statistics, I

    • Summer Session A, 2024: https://pstat120b.github.io/


Courses I’ve TA’d:

I’ve also had the privilege of serving as both a Teaching Assistant (TA) as well as a Head TA across several courses. As a Head TA, duties include: assisting the instructor in course creation, managing course TAs and ULAs (Undergraduate Learning Assistants), and also teaching one Discussion/Lab Section.

  • PSTAT 5A: Understanding Data (formerly Statistics)

    • Fall 2020, with Dr. Julie Swenson

  • PSTAT 10: Principles of Data Science with R

    • Head TA: Fall 2022, with Dr. Uma Ravat

  • PSTAT 120A: Introduction to Probability

    • Head TA: Spring 2021 - Spring 2022
      • Spring 2022: with Dr. Uma Ravat
      • Winter 2022: with Dr. Saad Mouti
      • Fall 2021: with Dr. Uma Ravat and Dr. Saad Mouti
      • Spring 2021: with Dr. Uma Ravat
    • TA: Winter 2021, Summer 2021, Winter 2025
      • Winter 2025: with Dr. Brian Wainwright
      • Summer 2021: with Dr. Mengye Liu
      • Winter 2021: with Dr. Uma Ravat

  • PSTAT 120B: Mathematical Statistics, I

    • Spring 2025, with Dr. Brian Wainwright
    • Winter 2023, with Dr. Saad Mouti


Lead TA

Since Fall 2023, I have also served as the Lead TA for the PSTAT department, a role I am honored to continue serving during the 2025-2026 academic year. As part of this role, I run PSTAT 501, our department’s designated Teaching Assistant Training course, in Fall and Winter quarter. Over the course of this two-quarter class, new graduate students learn the basics of statistical pedagogy, are connected with on-campus resources, and given tools to succeed as thriving Teaching Assistants for the PSTAT department.

 

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