At UCLA’s 2025 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching, three Samueli engineering awardees were among the 17 members across campus recognized for their commitment to education, including graduate student teaching assistant Alexis Korb from Computer Science.
Korb, along with five other graduate students, received the Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, which recognizes innovative teaching methods and efforts to foster inclusive learning environments, among other factors. Korb encourages her students to look beyond a single homework or test grade. Because coding assignments are often graded solely on whether a program runs successfully, she emphasizes assessing students’ conceptual understanding as well. She says her goal is to help students recognize the value that comes from their attempts.
“I like to focus on giving them the intuition to ask, ‘What is actually happening? Why is this working?’ Not just the solution, but how do we actually solve this problem?’” Korb said in her interview. Her graduate advisor is computer science professor Amit Sahai.