Dragos

My Passion & How I Inspire

I will always remember my general school Physics teacher as she really opened my eyes and instilled a real passion for science in me. She showed me the best way to teach a subject is to guide the student to re-discover it for themselves with cleverly posed questions and hints.

I believe my role as a tutor is to guide and motivate students to pursue their learning goals, by building their interest for the subject and revealing its more exciting aspects. Depending on the student's learning style, I will customise the lesson to be experimental or theoretical in order to smooth the learning curve and help students achieve their potential.

I enjoy seeing students gain confidence in their abilities as they experience the feeling of achievement that comes with discovering the solution to a problem that seemed unsurmountable just a few hours ago.

My Experience

Oct 2018 - present: PhD in Blockchain and Quantum Resistance, Imperial College London

Jun 2018 - present: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London

As a teaching assistant, I help students with programming assignments during lab hours or tutorials. I also participate in marking and setting exams for programming courses such as Haskell, Java, C.

Jan - Mar 2018: Teaching Helper, Communicating Computer Science in Schools

In my 4th year, I took a course where we were paired with schools in order to help with teaching activities. I taught Python to a class of 25 Year 6 students and web development to a group of 10 Year 13 students preparing for their A-levels.

Apr - Oct 2017: Software Engineering Placement, Bloomberg

I built a prototype for the new infrastructure for pushing data to mobile devices.

2016 - 2017: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London

Tutored a group of eight 1st year students in Mathematics, Logic, and Reasoning about Programs as part of a teaching scheme supported by Imperial.

Subjects That I Teach

  • ACT
  • ACT - Undergraduate
  • ACT - Postgraduate
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science - Undergraduate
  • Computer Science - Postgraduate
  • Science
  • Science - Undergraduate
  • Science - Postgraduate

My Qualifications

Imperial College London, Computer Science MEng finished with First (78.2) -- 2018

First Year Dean's List (top 10%) -- 2015

Second Year Dean's List (top 10%) -- 2016

David Howarth Group Project Prize for best mobile application -- 2017

Yakutsk International Physics Olympiad -- 2012

Fun fact

You might find me in the park launching water rockets repurposed from disused objects.