TJ Yusun

TJ Yusun

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

University of Toronto Mississauga

About Me

Hello! I am an assistant professor of mathematics, teaching stream, at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

I am involved in a wide range of mathematics education projects with themes around active learning and assessment design: more recently, flipping a discrete mathematics course, and validating a concept inventory for proof-based courses. I also published my discrete math course notes as an OER text using PreTeXt. Other interests include algorithms for linear optimization with connections to the geometry of polyhedra.

Interests

  • Active Learning and Mathematics Education
  • Academic Integrity in Mathematics Courses
  • Linear Optimization and Discrete Geometry

Education

  • PhD in Mathematics, 2018

    Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC)

  • MSc in Mathematics, 2012

    Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC)

  • BS (Hons.) in Mathematics, 2008

    Ateneo de Manila University (Manila, Philippines)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM

Jul 2020 – Present Mississauga, ON
 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer

Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM

Jul 2018 – Jun 2020 Mississauga, ON
 
 
 
 
 

Sessional Lecturer

Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM

Sep 2017 – Apr 2018 Mississauga, ON
 
 
 
 
 

Contract Lecturer

Chang School for Continuing Education, Ryerson University

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 Toronto, ON
 
 
 
 
 

Sessional Instructor

Department of Mathematics, SFU

Jan 2014 – Dec 2016 Surrey, BC

Awards

Writing Development Initiative Grant ($48000)

Office of the Dean, UTM Sep 2020 – Apr 2023

Teaching Development and Innovation Grant ($5000)

Office of the Dean, UTM Jul 2019 – Apr 2021

Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Member of the UTM MCS Community

Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM Sep 2017 – Apr 2018

Teaching and Learning Development Grant ($6000, with Dr. Tamon Stephen)

Institute for the Study of Learning and Teaching in the Disciplines, SFU Jan 2017

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship D ($63,000)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada May 2013 – Apr 2016

Graduate Fellowships ($25,250 total)

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, SFU Sep 2011 – Apr 2016

Recent Posts

Sep 7, 2020 2 min read

Start

Classes start this week and why do I constantly feel like I am behind on course prep? So. Many. Things. To. Do. :D The FSP bootcamp I joined is helping for sure in terms of time management but I find that I’m having to tweak some of the methods so that they can work for a teaching stream workflow where 80-90% of the work is focused on teaching and the rest on service (as opposed to research stream where the split is 40/40/20 research/teaching/service).

Aug 22, 2020 2 min read

Decisions

After all of the webinars and workshops and conferences I attended over the summer it is finally time to sit down, write a syllabus, and make pedagogical decisions about my courses.

Aug 11, 2020 1 min read

One Month To Go

Ok, cool. I’ve created ten videos so far for MAT202 and MAT136 combined. Nowhere where I wanted to be at this point but it’ll do. I like my current setup now of using Drawboard for PDF annotation and OBS for screen-capture.

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Contact

  • tj.yusun@utoronto.ca
  • DH-3058, Deerfield Hall, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
  • Please email me to book an appointment. If you are a student in one of my courses, please check Quercus for both general drop-in hours and a link for bookable one-on-one time slots.