Yifu Eve Ding

Energy Scholar at MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Sloan School of Management | Clean Energy and Transportation | Optimization under Uncertainty | Energy Data and AI for Social Good

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Graduate Level Instruction

Leading Teaching Assistant | MIT Sloan School of Management

Optimization Methods in Business Analytics | Spring 2025
Course Organizers: Prof. James B. Orlin, Prof. Thomas Magnanti

  • Leading a teaching assistant team in addressing inquiries during office hours, preparing mid-term examinations, and grading assignments
  • Conducting weekly recitation sessions for graduate students
  • 📊 Developed Group Project Materials

Co-instructor | MIT Energy Initiative

IAP Computational Modeling for Promoting Low-Carbon Electricity | Spring 2024, 2025


Undergraduate Teaching Experience

Third-Year Tutor | University of Oxford

Control Systems | October 2021 - September 2022
Course Organizers: Prof. Kostas Margellos, Prof. Stephen Duncan

  • Arranged tutorials and taught 16 third-year undergraduates in advanced control systems
  • Course Modules:
    • Linear control theory
    • Optimal control methods
    • Kalman filtering
    • Controller performance analysis

Laboratory Demonstrator & Assessor | University of Oxford

First-Year C++ Software Laboratory | January - March 2021

  • Demonstrated programming concepts and assessed student laboratory work
  • Guided students through fundamental C++ programming exercises

First-Year Electrical Laboratory | January - March 2020, October - December 2020

  • Demonstrated electrical engineering laboratory procedures and safety protocols
  • Assisted students with circuit analysis, measurement techniques, and data interpretation