Teaching Preferences
Online Teaching
One-on-One at $40-50 per hour
Group Teaching at $10-20 per hour
Offers free trial classes
Teaches following Subjects/Exams
Micro-economics (Bachelor of Science: Economics)
Language of Instruction:
English
LSAT Prep (Law)
Language of Instruction:
English
Logical Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension
GMAT (Business and Management)
Language of Instruction:
English
Sentence Correction, Quantitative Reasoning, Critical Reasoning
Biology 101 (Bachelor of Science: Biochemistry)
Language of Instruction:
English
Statistics (Bachelor of Science: Statistics)
Language of Instruction:
English
Teaching Experience
LSAT Instructor and Statistical Consultant
Knewton Inc, United States
Sep 2009 - Present
LSAT, GMAT
Feedback from past students:
"Kalyan was clear and articulate, and presented the material
logically and in a straightforward manner. I could hear his voice in
my head as I took the exam."
"Kalyan was engaging and really encouraged everyone to participate
in class. His personality was also flexible and it contributed to fun
and light-hearted class time experience."
"Very patient. Almost always on point with everything and when he
wasn't he went back and corrected it."
"Kalyan did an excellent job of balancing the skill levels of the
various students in the class, and of covering material in an
efficient manner. He was also good about balancing the class content
with questions from the class, and about which questions he selected
to address and which ones he pushed to the TA. I preferred his style
over the others that I occasionally caught on-demand."
"My instructor is knowledgeable and well prepared for the topics and
lecture structures as a whole."
"He was great, couldn't have asked for a better experience. I only
wish we had more lessons so that I could continue to improve more. My
score has gone up about 10 points so far."
Biology Instructor
Iowa State University, United States
Jan 2004 - May 2005
Biology
•Prepared lectures and presentations , taught two class sections of approximately 20 students each; worked as part of a team of teaching assistants, and collaborated with professors to substantially improve course design and presentation
•Held office hours and tutored students outside of class with particular attention to individual areas of weakness
•Composed and graded assignments and exams; performed statistics on class data to examine efficiency of instruction methods
•Utilized instructional database software to compose and grade online quizzes and assignments, to prepare and distribute lecture material as well as to receive student feedback
Education
Economics/MA
City University of New York, New York, United States
Aug 2008 - May 2010
Economics Research Award (City University of New York)
Genetics/MA
Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, United States
Aug 2006 - Jul 2008
Graduate Fellowship (Columbia University)
??Investigated fundamental mechanisms of DNA repair to elucidate failed processes in
Cancer cells and to contribute to strategies for therapeutic treatment?
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology/MS
Iowa State University, Iowa, United States
Sep 2003 - May 2005
PACE award for academic excellence (Iowa State University)?
??Worked on a Network modeling approach to analyze gene expression (microarray) data to
contribute to the understanding of biological pathways
??Generated statistical models to cluster genes with similar cellular levels to elucidate
meaningful biological relationships
Biochemistry Cell and Molecular Biology/BA
Drake University, Iowa, United States
Aug 1999 - Aug 2003
Presidential Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement
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