William T. Tarimo, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Worcester, MA, US

New London, CT, US

Waltham, Massachusetts, US

Started as The Affective Tutor in 2013, then to TeachBack from 2014 to 2016, to now Discovery Teaching. Our goal is to provide new teaching and learning methods and appropriate classroom technology tools that improve academic results and in-class teaching and learning.Our web platform is designed to engage university classrooms in dynamic teaching and.

Bagamoyo, Pwani, TZ

• An NGO with a mission to create sustainable education and employment programs in parts of Tanzania
• Assessing the educational needs of the supported communities and advise on effective initiatives and approaches
• Responsible for raising awareness and funds for the foundation's mission.

Waltham, MA, US

• Continuing with PhD work in Computer-Supported Agile Teaching (CSAT) with emphasis in:
• Exploring the commercial possibilities of the TeachBack classroom system (now Discovery Teaching) through improvements, funding, marketing, and user growth campaigns.
• Adding new pedagogical features to TeachBack.
• Improving the UI/UX, performance and scalability of TeachBack.
• Conducting pedagogy experiments, tests on new features, and publish research papers.

Waltham, MA, US

• Conduct research in the areas of educational technology, agile pedagogy and learning analytics
• Develop TeachBack, an in-class web application for active computer-mediated interactive pedagogies
• Assist teachers and students to adopt flipped classroom teaching and learning using TeachBack
• Regularly present and publish doctoral research works in education and edTech conferences
• A hands-on Ph.D./admin teaching assistant in courses that taught web & mobile development in Ruby On Rails, JavaScript, Cordova Phonegap, AngularJS, Node.JS, and Meteor; and programming courses in Java & Python

Springfield, Massachusetts, US

• I provided support and technical expertise in designing and building a web-based knowledge base system using MarkLogic (A NoSQL enterprise database) and web semantics.
• Ran two sprints to refine the product in response to user feedback and company vision
• Assumed a lead technical role in designing and developing a second beta of the a knowledge base system using MarkLogic, XQuery, Roxy, AngularJS, Javascript and Bootstrap.

New London, CT, US

• Collaborated with Professor Gary Parker to develop gait training systems for legged servo-robots using AI theories such Genetic Algorithm, Punctuated Anytime Learning, Fitness Biasing.
• Developed a robotics training system using wireless communication, simulation, image processing, and overhead IP camera to develop a machine-learning system that uses on-ground mobile robots to learn adaptive and.
• Studied, designed and developed Cyclic Genetic Algorithms (CGA) for gait generation for 4 & 6 legged servo-robots with 2 & 3 degrees of movement per leg.
• Conducted studies on the effects of adding ‘greedy genetic selections’ on Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
• Presented and published three research works during CEC and SMC conferences
• Co-chaired the Mobile Robot Control session during IEEE’s SMC conference

New London, CT, US

• Provided technical support to the college community on computer software and hardware problems
• Mastered customer support over the phone, in-person, email, IM and the WebHelpDesk online system
• Assisted and collaborated with IS staff with operational and project-based tasks on new features and software

New London, CT, US

• Acted as a link between faculty and students regarding departmental issues, concerns, and events
• Represented students, faculty or the department in faculty candidate talks and other SAB meetings
• Facilitated faculty evaluations and recommendations

New London, CT, US

• Assisted instructors and students in courses that taught Python, Java, Scheme and LEGO programming
• Organized a robotics lab, managed parts inventory, and assisted in ordering new supplies

Piscataway, NJ, US

• Presented: “Quadruped Gait Learning Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithm”, CEC 2011, New Orleans
• Presented: “The Effects of Using a Greedy Factor in Hexapod Gait Learning”, CEC 2011, New Orleans
• Presented: “Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms to Learn Gaits for an Actual Quadruped Robot”, SMC 2011, AK
• Session Co-Chair: Mobile Robot Control session, IEEE SMC – October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska
• Paper Reviewer: Review research papers for the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science

International Baccalaureate (Ib) Diploma, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, It, English

Acsee (A-Level), Physics, Chemisty & Mathematics (Pcm)

Csee (O-Level), Certificate Of Secondary Examination Education (Csee)