teaching

Courses, mentorship, and guest lectures.

I currently teach on two taught-postgraduate MA programmes at the University of Hong Kong — AI, Ethics, and Society and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics — co-teaching three courses and leading two tutorial sections.

2025

Fundamentals of AI, Data, and Algorithms (PHIL7001)

MA in AI, Ethics, and Society Alice Wong (co-taught)

How contemporary AI systems actually work — data, learning algorithms, and the assumptions built into them — for students arriving from philosophy and the social sciences.

Formal Methods for AI, Ethics, and Society (PHIL7010)

MA in AI, Ethics, and Society Alice Wong (co-taught)

Logic, formal reasoning, and quantitative methods applied to questions about AI systems and their governance.

Foundations of PPE: Reasons and Methods

MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Alice Wong (co-taught)

The methodological toolkit shared across philosophy, politics, and economics, and what each discipline means by a good reason.

Mentorship

  • 2025 — HKU Common Core. Co-facilitated research internships for 12 undergraduates conducting qualitative interviews on the use of generative AI in higher education.
  • 2022–2023 — Chapman University. Trained 1 doctoral student, 1 post-baccalaureate research assistant, and 3 undergraduate research assistants on single-pulse TMS protocols.
  • 2021 — Chapman University. Trained 2 post-baccalaureate and 7 undergraduate research assistants on single-pulse TMS protocols; trained 1 post-baccalaureate and 8 undergraduate research assistants on EEG protocols.
  • 2020 — Chapman University. Trained 7 undergraduate research assistants on single-pulse TMS protocols.
  • 2019 — Chapman University. Trained 5 undergraduate research assistants on EEG and behavioural protocols.
  • 2018 — Chapman University. Organised and managed undergraduate and graduate lab sessions and provided administrative grant support.

Earlier course assistantships

At Chapman University I served as a course assistant for Sensation and Perception (2019, 2020), the Honors course Brain, Mind and Film (2019), Critical Thinking (2018, two sections), and Psychology of Learning (2018).

Guest lectures

Year Lecture
2022 Psychedelics and Altered States of Consciousness
2020 Sensation and Perception: Prosthetic Vision
2019 Sensation and Perception: Speech Perception
2019 Neuroscience in Education: Can neuroscience inform classroom teaching practices?
2019 Psychedelic Microdosing: Historical and current practices
2018 Behaviorist Principles of Learning: Conditioning and beyond

Workshops given

  • 2026 — Comparing Machine and Biological Computation (Philosophy of AI Summer School)
  • 2025 — Driving Teaching and Learning through Artificial Intelligence (HKU Common Core)