Declan Kutscher

Declan Kutscher

He/Him

Research Engineer @ UC Berkeley (BAIR) | building self-supervised vision for the real world.

Teaching

CS 0011 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING FOR SCIENTISTS (FALL ‘23)

Undergraduate course, University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, 2023

Role: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Introduced course projects duirng lab time
  • Assisted students with conceptual understanding of course projects
  • Held office hours to assist students with issues with course content

Course Description: All of the CS 001X courses will introduce students to the concepts of computing and computer programming. Students in these courses will learn how a computer works and how to write programs in order to use the computer as a problem solving tool. A major focus of the class will be on developing problem-solving skills (e.g., how to decompose a problem into more manageable parts and how to combine those parts into an overall solution). CS 0011 in particular will focus on problems related to the natural sciences with an emphasis on computational biology. Domain-specific projects and labs will be assigned throughout the course to encourage students in the natural sciences to apply computing to their field of study.

CMPINF 0401 INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMMING (Spring ‘23)

Undergraduate course, University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, 2023

Role: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • I led recitations to review course material and answer questions
  • Held office hours to assist students with issues with course content

Course Description: This is an intermediate programming course that focuses on programming via an object-oriented paradigm. Students entering CMPINF 0401 are expected to have some previous concepts and then focus on object-oriented programming, including classes, encapsulation and abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism and interfaces. Some introductory data structures and algorithms will also be covered in this course.This class is a programming-intensive course, and students will be expected to complete several non-trivial programming projects throughout the term.

CS 0007 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING (FALL ‘22)

Undergraduate course, University of Pittsburgh, School of Computing and Information, 2022

Role: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Introduced course projects duirng lab time
  • Assisted students with conceptual understanding of course projects
  • Held office hours to assist students with issues with course content

Course Description: This is a first course in computer science programming. It is recommended for those students intending to major in computer science who do not have the required background for the School of Computing and Information’s intermediate programming class. It may also be of interest to students majoring in one of the social sciences or humanities. The focus of the course is on problem analysis and the development of algorithms and computer programs in a modern high-level language.