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I am Sam Lau, a Ph.D. candidate advised by Philip Guo{:target="_blank"} in the Cognitive Science department at UC San Diego. I study human-computer interaction (HCI), where I prototype new software for programming, statistics, and data science instructors to prepare their lessons.
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In the past, I was a computer science student at UC Berkeley where I helped launch Data 8 and Data 100, Berkeley's two flagship data science courses. My instructor ratings are available on the HKN website{:target="_blank"}. I also wrote a textbook for Data 100, which is freely available online{:target="_blank"}.