Staff

Leadership

Administrative Staff

Daniel Liao
Director

Daniel Liao

Daniel is a student at Dougherty Valley High School with hundreds of hours of accumulated teaching experience in both group and individual settings. In addition, he is the head coach for the GRMS Math Team, has extensive experience with olympiad mathematics, and develops math visualizations. In his free time, he likes to watch soccer and edit photos.

Aiden Jiang
Assistant Director

Aiden Jiang

Aiden is a student at Dougherty Valley High School. He has achieved Honor Roll on the AMC8 and held the highest score on the GRMS MATHCOUNTS team. Outside of math, he enjoys playing both violin and piano and plays water polo for the DVHS Men’s team.

Department

Math Department

Taran Ajith
Head of Math

Taran Ajith

Taran is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with extensive competition math experience, including being a 5x AIME Qualifier, achieving distinction on the AMC10, placing 6th at the Stanford Math Tournament, and finishing 1st at Mathleague.org Nationals. Outside of math, he enjoys practicing gymnastics.

Abhay Mangla
Curriculum Coordinator

Abhay Mangla

Abhay is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with experience in both olympiad mathematics and higher-level math, including Math Kangaroo, MOEMS, the AMC Series, and various other contests. In his free time, he enjoys coding and playing the trombone.

Tutors

Our Tutors

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Karen Chang
Math Science Music

Karen is a senior at Dougherty Valley High School. She has extensive teaching and curriculum development experience through her time at both BobTutors and the DVHS Future Speakers Club. Outside of teaching, she likes to play the viola and golf.

Frank Shi
Frank Shi
Math Science

Frank is a senior at Dougherty Valley High School with 5 years of teaching experience and 250+ volunteer hours. He won first place at both the Contra Costa County Science Fair and California Science Fair, has two published papers, and is writing his third. In his free time, he enjoys playing violin and going to the gym.

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Arshia Ghatak
Math CS

Arshia is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School. She has taught over a hundred students through her experience at ALL for STEAM and Girls Who Code Chapter at DVHS. Additionally, she has experience in curriculum development and management through her aforementioned leadership roles.

Michael Myint
Michael Myint
Music

Michael is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School. He has been playing piano for 8 years and cello for 5 years. He has attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied under various professional teachers.

Jeannie Huang
Jeannie Huang
Math Science

Jeannie is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with extensive tutoring experience through YMCA and various school programs. She has represented her school in Math Olympiad, MATHCOUNTS, AMC8, USABO, and BBO competitions.

Haigu Sriram
Hayagriv Sriram (Haigu)
Math Science Music

Haigu is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School who has been playing music for 5+ years, including drums, guitar, and piano. His teaching experience includes both percussion and guitar, and he is proficient in math and physics with experience in engineering and olympiad physics.

Joanna Jiang
Joanna Jiang
Math Science Chinese French

Joanna is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School who teaches a variety of subjects from math and science to history and English. She loves working with kids and helping students learn. Outside of tutoring, she enjoys music, art, traveling, painting, and playing guitar.

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Joshua Kocherry
Math

Josh is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with three years of tutoring and mentoring experience. He has worked with students ranging from elementary to high school through the DVHS Music Service club, peer tutoring in chemistry, and coaching youth soccer teams. Josh is proficient in math up to precalculus, and highly skilled in Biology, Chemistry, and English.

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Dominick Weng (Dom)
Chinese

Dominick is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School. He is a native Mandarin speaker with extensive experience teaching both oral and written Chinese.

Sen Hong
Sen Hong
Math

Sen is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with experience teaching both math and English to non-native speakers. Outside of teaching, he is passionate about engineering, 3D design, and automobiles.

Michael Wang
Michael Wang
Math Science Music

Michael is a senior at Dougherty Valley High School with several years of teaching experience through the DVHS Science Alliance program, and is part of the DVHS Jazz Band, playing the guitar. He is highly proficient in math, science, and music theory.

Krishna Sreeneel
Krishna Sreeneel
Math Science

Krishna is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with professional teaching experience, working for both Kumon and the DVHS Science Alliance program. He is highly skilled in Biology, achieving Silver in the British Biology Olympiad.

Srivatsa Yanamandra
Srivatsa Yanamandra
Math Science CS

Srivatsa is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School. He is an aspiring computer scientist with a passion for bettering the community. This is Srivatsa’s first year with Tri Valley Tutoring.

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Jay Ravulakollu
Math Science

Jay is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School.

Devansh Karavati
Devansh Karavati
Math Science

Devansh is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with a deep passion for mathematics and science. He excels in advanced coursework, including AP Calculus BC and AP Biology, and has experience mentoring younger students through the Science Alliance program, helping them grasp complex topics.

Aadvik Kesharwani
Aadvik Kesharwani
Math Science

Aadvik is a junior at DVHS with extensive experience in contest math (AMC, BMC) and computer science (USACO). He is a certified tutor in AP Calculus BC and below, AP Physics 1, APCSP, and English. In his free time, Aadvik likes to coach top tier Rocket League, play video games and volleyball!

Jeisa Ng
Jeisa Ng
English History Math

Jeisa is a sophomore at DVHS and a part of the DVHS Leadership team. She serves as the Dance Coordinator for DV’s Vietnamese Student Association and has years of experience coaching fencing. Outside of school, she enjoys filmmaking, video editing, and traveling.

Kayla Li
Kayla Li
Math Chinese

Kayla is a sophomore at Dougherty Valley High School. She has worked with students from different elementary and middle schools and loves to get to know new people. In her free time, she enjoys eating food and dancing.

Smriti Krishna
Smriti Krishna
Math Science

Smriti is a sophomore at DVHS with a passion for teaching and science. She has two years of experience teaching at Koos Martial Arts and this past summer gained hands-on molecular biology research experience at CSU East Bay. Outside of academics, Smriti loves to paint and play the alto saxophone.

Hina Lo
Hina Lo
Math Science Japanese

Hina is a junior at Dougherty Valley High School with experience in teaching math and science, and is a native Japanese speaker.

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Eesha Gujjewar
Math English

Eesha is a sophomore at Dougherty Valley High School.

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Arlen Lee
Math Science

Arlen is a sophomore at Dougherty Valley High School.

Aarushi Tang
Aarushi Tangellapalli
Math Science

Aarushi is a sophomore at Dougherty Valley High School with a passion for math, science and working with others. Aarushi is also in the Executive Band Council and loves playing the saxophone. Outside of school she like to read, and hang out with friends.

Alumni

Past Tutors

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Harold Park
Math & Science
Now at Brown University
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Daniel Adas
Math & English
Senior at DVHS
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Cheston Lai
Math
Junior at DVHS
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Emily Wang
Math, English & Chinese
Junior at DVHS
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Nina Stadermann
Math, English, Music
Now at UC Berkeley

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