Students

Collaborating with passionate, empathetic Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) who support the pedagogy, production, and management of great, rigorous courses in computer science is the real joy of my career. My courses would not be possible without their significant contributions. This page recognizes students I've worked with as undergraduate teaching assistants at UNC Chapel Hill. I am proud to serve as a professional reference for any.

Through Spring 2026, 269 undergraduates have served as teaching assistants in my courses. Their contributions to course design, teaching, student support, and educational technology are central to teaching well at scale.

Meet the Spring 2026 COMP423 teaching team.

Earlier Teaching Teams

The class lists below are a historical snapshot of earlier teams and destinations at the time they were recorded.

Class of 2026

  • Natalie Ammerman - Red Hat
  • Kate Bailey - UNC-Chapel Hill, MS Computer Science
  • Alicia Bao
  • Gabriela Barros - Johns Hopkins University, XDBio PhD student
  • Ben Chesser - Red Hat
  • Jack Coury - Strata Clean Energy
  • Katie Fort - Palantir Technologies
  • Muhammad Fouly - Microsoft
  • Julia Guzzo - Apple
  • Ellie Kim - Datadog
  • Connor Lee - Owl Cyber Defense
  • Grace Odondi - Fidelity Investments
  • Tobenna Okoli - Pearson
  • Shaina Patel - Datadog
  • Benny Rakower - Major League Baseball
  • Kamal Deep Vasireddy

Class of 2025

  • Kiernan Almand
  • Mitchell Anderson - ServiceNow
  • Rose Anim - Microsoft
  • Ife Babarinde - Meta
  • Bernie Chen - Software Engineer, Confluent
  • Jean Cheng - UNC-Chapel Hill, MS Computer Science / teaching assistant
  • Sarah Chocron - Freelance product designer
  • Madi Drummonds - South Carolina Aquarium (profile affiliation)
  • Benjamin Eldridge - UNC-Chapel Hill, graduate researcher and teaching assistant
  • Quintin Gay - Resonance (first employer after graduation)
  • Anusha Gondi - Google
  • Catherine Huang
  • Vitor Inserra - UNC-Chapel Hill, MS Computer Science / researcher
  • Aarjav Jain - Amazon
  • Mary Carolyn Kane
  • Michelle Kieu - AIG
  • Grace Ku - SAS
  • Chloe Lin
  • Andrew Lockard - CapTech
  • Yueen Ma - Rice University, Statistics PhD student
  • Tekla Maisashvili - Anza Mortgage Insurance Corporation
  • Dika Manne
  • Embrey Morton - Lowe's
  • Kene Ochuba - Microsoft
  • Chiara Sabato - EY Studio+
  • Lucas Siegel - Capital One
  • Tyler Smith - EATS2SEATS (part-time)
  • Audrey Toney - Microsoft
  • Sunny Wang - AQR Capital Management
  • Amy Xu
  • William Zahrt
  • Alanna Zhang
  • Sarah Zhang - Vocal Media

Class of 2024

  • Abdulaziz Al-Shayef - UNC-Chapel Hill, MS Computer Science
  • Sadie Amato - Accenture
  • Madelyn Andrews - Fidelity Investments
  • Haley Bohn - University of Georgia, Hispanic Linguistics PhD student
  • Jessica Bring - SAS
  • Erin Byrd - Carolina DJ Professionals
  • Vivian Deng - Goldman Sachs
  • Vrinda Desai - SAS
  • Bailey DeSouza - Amazon
  • Ajay Gandecha - Apple, Xcode
  • Madeleine Genova - InterSystems
  • Aidan Glynn
  • Emma Jia - Meta
  • David Karash - Apple
  • Jade Keegan - Genesys
  • Abigail Kessel - Fidelity Investments
  • Matthew Kolsch - Capital One
  • Lynn Lee - Trio Labs
  • Somer Lillard - Fidelity Investments
  • Charles Ma - Anduril Industries
  • Christine Mendoza - Carnegie Mellon University, HCI PhD student
  • Megan Ortel - Capital One
  • Shefali Pai - NetApp
  • Mira Rajesh - Microsoft
  • Aryonna Rice - Sprout Social
  • Catherine Roberts - Loudoun Test Prep
  • Luis Sanchez - Amazon
  • Shreya Selvavel
  • Meghan Sun - Microsoft
  • Olivia Wen - Microsoft
  • Adin Zimmerman - SAS

Class of 2023

  • Iris Chien - Confluent
  • Lucy Conway - DRUM UPSKILL
  • Hannah Cruz - Walt Disney World
  • Ella Danso-Fordjour - Appian
  • Jackson Davis - SoFi
  • Izzie Estes - IXL Learning
  • Fernando Garcia - BlackRock
  • Aneka Happer - SIXGEN
  • Claire Helms - The Washington Post (first employer after graduation)
  • Ben Hites - Pendo.io
  • Langston Luck - IBM
  • Harman Martin - George Mason University, JD candidate
  • Janet Mbugua - Foxconn
  • David Nassif - EmpiRx Health
  • Garrison Parrish - Fidelity Investments
  • Milen Patel - Google DeepMind
  • Eric Schneider - Virginia Tech, Computer Science PhD student
  • Mazin Shaaeldin - Nutanix
  • Sam Shi - Apple
  • Naomi Smith - Salesforce
  • Kyle Sorensen - Owner.com
  • Robert Susewell - Previously Visa
  • Raven Taylor - Slack
  • Austin Wade - Wells Fargo
  • Cindy Wang - ARIN
  • Jesse Wei
  • Felipe Yanaga - Google DeepMind
  • Andrew Zheng - Veeva Systems

Class of 2022

  • Chiazo Agina - Stripe
  • Madyson Barber - UNC-Chapel Hill, Physics and Astronomy PhD candidate
  • Dylan Binley - Accordion (previously OperationsRx)
  • Helen Charbonnet - Accenture Federal Services
  • Jasper Christie - Optum
  • Clayton Covington
  • Tori Hoffmann - EF Go Ahead Tours
  • Moshe Ikechukwu - NC State, Computer Science PhD student (previously part-time instructor at Juni Learning)
  • Marc Lewis - Instagram / Meta
  • Josh Lovett - CVS Health
  • Chelsea Rowe - Capital One
  • Rebekah Seawell - LexisNexis
  • Raine Thai - Microsoft
  • Hanna Tischer - GE Vernova
  • Amitla Vannikumar - JPMorgan Chase
  • Marlee Walls
  • Ezri White - Inductive
  • Anna Xu - Instagram / Meta
  • Megan Zhang - Microsoft

Class of 2021

  • Lizzie Abouchar - CertifID
  • San Bae - Amazon
  • Crystal Baker - Maven AGI
  • Chris Diserafino - Bank of America
  • Alana Fiordalisi - Android Engineer, Wealthfront
  • Isabella (Izzy) Ford - LevelTen Energy
  • Matthew Gregoire
  • Madison Huber - Quizlet
  • Elisa Kadackal - Compass Group
  • Matthew Kirby - Capital One
  • Margaret Lake - Lucid
  • Kristen Lennon - Accenture
  • Ruochen (Larry) Li - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Kitty Lindrum - Soomo Learning
  • Bea Manaligod - CapTech
  • Alfred Mathew - MetLife
  • Makenzie O'Brien - Wharton, MBA candidate (previously Bain & Company)
  • Kush Patel - Fifth Third Bank
  • Jules Perkins - Microsoft
  • Max Petruzzi - Anthropic
  • Sydney Schamay - International Foundation for Electoral Systems
  • Sneha Senthilkumar - Fidelity Investments (previously Microsoft)
  • Lilly Whalen - Pendo
  • Rui Wu - SAS
  • Lindsay Zhou - Tableau / Salesforce

Class of 2020

  • Jeremiah Alfaro - Previously Emmes
  • Tony Bird - Amazon
  • Katherine Buige - Grow Therapy (previously DraftKings)
  • Heather Crew - Wealthfront (previously Microsoft)
  • Haley DeZwaan - Bank of America
  • Kassi Dibert - Optum Health
  • Sirine Dridi - Capital One (previously Cisco and graduate school)
  • Rhett Dudley - Google
  • David Firrincieli - Deloitte; adjunct lecturer at Brown University
  • Mary Gibeau - Microsoft
  • Julia Gillies - U.S. District Courts, Judicial Law Clerk
  • Matthew Guerrera - Wharton, MBA candidate
  • Sarah Hand - General Motors
  • Idrees Hassan - Genesys
  • Lydia Heater - CarGurus
  • Emily Heckel - SAS
  • Izzi Hinks - Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Armando Jimenez - Caltrans
  • Maggie Knostman - Previously Genesys
  • Zak Lintz - Barclays
  • Sydney Mantell - University of Rhode Island, PhD student (previously NOAA OAR Knauss Fellow)
  • Mason Mathew
  • Tiara Mathur - Microsoft
  • Kristina Nickel - Capital One
  • Allison O'Connor - MetLife
  • Cara Price - D.E. Shaw
  • Natalie Russell - Google
  • Kaki Ryan - Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Michelle Sun - Technology Consultant, Accenture
  • Julia Tian - Datadog (previously Microsoft)
  • Lizzie Tong - University of Washington, PhD student (previously Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
  • Ansley Ussery - Modular
  • Morgan Vickery - SUNY Cortland and LearnabilityHQ; Learning Sciences PhD, Indiana University
  • JC Weber - Insulet (previously WillowTree)
  • Katherine Whyte - Morgan Stanley
  • Selina Zhang - DoorDash (previously Amazon)

Class of 2019

  • Duncan Britton - JPMorgan
  • Brooke Canter - Wells Fargo
  • Carly Clark - Epic
  • Sarah Ganci - Sonos
  • Kate Goldenring - Akamai Technologies (previously Fermyon Technologies and Microsoft)
  • Kiet Huynh - Amazon
  • Hank Hester - Microsoft
  • Ben Levine - Apple (previously graduate school and SAS)
  • Victoria Maxwell
  • Rasika Ramanan - JPMorgan Chase, RTI International
  • Helen Qin - Google
  • Jay Randolph - jay-randolph.com
  • Gabi Stein - Reddit (previously Microsoft)
  • Shane Steele-Pardue - One Cow Standing
  • Tabatha Seawell - Capital One
  • Lydia Trogdon - Aebi Schmidt Group (previously Strategy& and Accenture)
  • Brooks Townsend - Capital One (previously Cosmonic)
  • Selina Zhang - DoorDash (previously Amazon)

Class of 2018

  • Krista Bellamy - Second Front Systems (previously CircleCI and IBM)
  • Melissa Fu - JP Morgan
  • Connor Hamlet - Cyberspace Security at US Air Force
  • Ahmed King - Cyber Operations at US Air Force
  • Dong Yeop Lee - Walmart Global Tech (previously Epic)
  • Jeffrey Young - Facebook

Class of 2017

  • Muttaqee Ali - Fidelity
  • Dorian Brandon - Amazon, Google
  • Meggie Cruser - Accenture, Teach for America
  • Karen Cheng - Webflow (previously The Epoch Times and ESPN / Disney)
  • Stephen Firrincieli - Datadog

Class of 2016

  • Dana Elhertani - DigitalOcean (previously SAS)
  • Sarah White - Slack (previously Patreon and Asana)