About
I am a MScAC student at the University of Toronto. My current work is with the Lin Lab from the Department of Cell and Systems Biology, where I am developing a data pipeline to integrate the analysis of neural imaging and behavioral data. I am also a TA for several courses in the Departments of Computer Science and Statistical Sciences. You can find a list of courses I am currently TAing or have TAed in the past below.
Prior to MScAC, I also completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in June 2025 with a double specialist in computer science and bioinformatics and a minor in statistics.
TA Experience
2026 Winter
- CSC258H1: Computer Organization with Steve Engels
- CSC369H1: Operating Systems with Mario Badr
- STA130H1: An Introduction to Statistical Reasoning and Data Science with Nathalie Moon and Samantha-Jo Caetano
2025 Fall
- CSC258H1: Computer Organization with Steve Engels and Chandra Gummaluru
- STA130H1: An Introduction to Statistical Reasoning and Data Science with Nathalie Moon and Skye P. Griffith
2025 Winter
- STA238H1: Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis II with Karen Huynh Wong and Michael Jongho Moon
2024 Fall
- STA130H1: An Introduction to Statistical Reasoning and Data Science with Scott Schwartz
Publications
* Indicates co-first authorship.
Farooqi, D.*, Pu, G.*, Paudel, S., Sultana, S., & Ahmed, S.I. Job-Anxiety in Post-Secondary Computer Science Students Caused by Artificial Intelligence. arXiv preprint (2026).
Shen, P.Y., Wu, J., Pu, G., Huang, K., & Lin, Q. Altered locomotion and anxiety after exposure to SiO2 nanoparticles in larval zebrafish. Scientific Reports 15, 18229 (2025).