Teaching, Mentoring & Service

Teaching as mentorship, communication, and growth

I approach teaching as a collaborative and student-centered process. My goal is to help students build confidence, communicate ideas clearly, and connect analytical tools to real societal challenges.

“I never thought doing research could be so fun. That was because of you.”

“You’re the best TA I’ve ever met.”

“I really hope I can keep working with Jingya. She’s always been incredibly helpful, warm, and considerate.”

Mentoring

CHEER Hub Summer Scholars Program

Summer 2026, 2025

Mentored a cohort of 7 Summer Scholars, including 4 undergraduate and 3 graduate students, in disaster risk and resilience research.

  • Guided students in preparing and delivering final research presentations
  • Provided feedback on research framing, clarity, and communication
  • Supported technical and non-technical research storytelling

Purdue Honors College Research Mentorship Program

Fall 2022

Mentored undergraduate research on equitable flood risk mitigation for coastal Louisiana.

  • Completed formal training in mentoring theory and practice
  • Guided project design using demographic and risk analysis
  • Helped develop a customized career development plan aligned with student goals

Graduate and Thesis Mentorship

Purdue University, 2021–2023

Mentored graduate research on robust decision-making for coastal infrastructure.

  • Advised research on many-objective decision analysis for seawall upgrades
  • Supported research design, modeling approach, and interpretation

Classroom Teaching

Teaching Assistant Experience

Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

I served as a teaching assistant for two years across core engineering courses in economics, probability, and statistics.

Engineering Economics (IE 343)
Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Probability and Statistics in Engineering (IE 230)
Spring 2019

Teaching Training and Communication

College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Completed Classroom Communication for International Graduate Students, with training in classroom communication, active learning, inclusive engagement, and strategies for explaining complex ideas across diverse audiences.

Academic Service & Leadership

Professional Leadership

  • Chair, Engineering & Infrastructure Specialty Group, Society for Risk Analysis (2023–2024)
  • Vice Chair, Engineering & Infrastructure Specialty Group, Society for Risk Analysis (2022–2023)

Led coordination of symposia, panels, and annual meeting activities, and supported community-building across academia, industry, and policy.

Community & Conference Service

  • Postdoctoral Member, NSF Cross CoPe Student and Postdoc Planning Committee (2024–Present)
  • Poster Judge, Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference (2022)
  • Symposium Judge, Purdue SURF Program (2019)

Peer Review & Professional Membership

  • Trusted Reviewer, IOP Publishing
  • Reviewer for journals including Nature Communications Earth & Environment, Environmental Research Letters, and Natural Hazards Research
  • Member, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
  • Member, INFORMS