CyMath started in Fall 2020 as a math tutoring project for grade-school students. Prof. Namrata Vaswani from the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Electrical Engineering (ECpE ) started the program in partnership with colleagues from the School of Education (Prof. Christa Jackson, who is no longer with ISU, Prof. Mollie Appelgate, and Shari Miller, Program Coordinator for ISU 4U Promise). The goal is to significantly improve the diversity and integration of the student population in computing-based majors, most of which require a solid grasp of mathematics concepts. Our tutors are mostly graduate student volunteers from Engineering and Mathematics who provide school–year-long virtual/in-person small-group Mathematics support and challenge for participants.
CyMath 1.0: Fall 2020 – Spring 2022
Our first year! Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, tutoring was held virtually. CyMath partnered with Moulton Elementary from Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) District and had 14 participants in the first year and 35 in the second.
Tutors
- Prof. Aduri, Pavan (CS professor)
- Dr. Awadhutkar, Payas (former ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Brennan, Zac (Math Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Burnett, Abigail (former Math Postbac student)
- Dr. Das, Anindya (former ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Indela, Soumya (ECpE postdoc, now teaching professors at ASU)
- Martin, Abby (Math Ph.D. student)
- McCarty, Sarah (Math Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Miller, Anayse (former Math Postbac student)
- Dr. Narayanamurthy, Praneeth (former ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Prof. Ramamoorthy, Aditya (ECpE professor)
- Tali, Ronak (ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Tang, Li (former ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Dr. Kostas (former ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Kulkarni, Adithya (CS Ph.D. student)
- Son, Seounghun (Hun) (ECpE Ph.D. student)
CyMath 2.0: Spring 2023
CyMath had four high school students participants through the DMPS virtual campus.
Tutors
- Babu, Silpa (ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Chen, Yan-Han (Stat Ph.D. student)
- McCarty, Sarah (Math Ph.D. student)
- Meng, Ruoyu (ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Prof. Moothedath, Shana (ECpE professor)
- Prof. Nguyen, Xuan Hien (Math professor)
- Son, Seounghun (Hun) (ECpE Ph.D. student)
- Zhou, Yingchao (Stat Ph.D. student)
CyMath 3.0: Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Tutors
- Babu, Silpa (ECE Ph.D. student)
- Chen, Yan-Han (Stat Ph.D. student)
- McCarty, Sarah (Math Ph.D. student)
- Meng, Ruoyu (ECE Ph.D. student)
- Son, Seonghun (ECE Ph.D. student)
- Zhou, Yingchao (Stat Ph.D. student)
- Jiabin Lin (ECE Ph.D. student)