I tutor economics and mathematics, and I teach high schoolers the quantitative and procedural skills a research lab hires for.

What I won't sell you

I don't sell lab placements, and I won't sell an illegitimate publication.

Programs that promise those are the reason ProPublica went looking: journals accepting four out of five submissions from a single service, paid fast-track review, quiet arrangements between the service and the journal publishing its clients. Admissions officers have noticed. What I teach instead is the prerequisites: statistics you can defend in a lab meeting, data analysis in R, the AI tools that speed it up, human-subjects research certification (CITI), and how to write the cold emails to Bay Area labs.

See how I teach

Before you decide anything, here are four minutes of me teaching.

One worked problem, run through the sequence I teach in — Verbalize, Visualize, Mathematize. Four minutes of video, about ten in total. No account, no email, no download.

Sample lesson · 4 min of video How much should you make? Profit maximization. You find the optimum before I derive it.

What I teach

• EconomicsAP Micro and Macro, Dual Enrollment.
• MathAlgebra through AP Calc BC.
• Get into a labEight weeks on what a lab actually needs from you: statistics you can defend in a lab meeting, data analysis in R, the AI tools that speed it up, human-subjects research certification (CITI), and how to write the cold emails to Bay Area labs. For juniors and seniors who want research experience they can talk about like someone who was there.

What it costs

• Get into a lab $2,400eight-week course

  Comparable programs run $2,500 to $12,000, and many of them promise a publication instead of the skills that earn a legitimate lab placement.

• Economics or mathematics $1,110a month

  A monthly retainer: four ninety-minute sessions, billed at $185 an hour. A week's notice moves a session and pro-rates it out; a month's notice ends the retainer, on the same terms. In person across Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Los Altos and Mountain View — online when either of us is travelling.

• First conversation Free20 minutes

  You describe what's going on, I tell you honestly whether I'm the right person. Sometimes I'm not.

Who you'd be working with

Economics and human biology undergraduate at Stanford, on a neuroscience concentration, and a research intern. I work on the neural predictors of risky choice, which is most of why I find the economics worth teaching.

• The sample lesson needs no account, no email, and no payment
• Every number on this page is on this page

Or send a note

Four questions. Free, no obligation — I answer these myself, usually the same day. If you would rather just take a slot, the calendar is here.

For parents and guardians. I don't collect anything about your student beyond the grade and subject above.