About
I live in Valdosta, Goergia. I am passionate about Science, Programing, Data Science, and Learning and Teaching, especially Tutoring. I am also very passionate about healthy living, meditation and min... dfulness, soccer, music, and art. For tutoring, I like the one-on-one interaction where I can meet the specific needs of the student, being more personalized, and I feel like I can help students better understand when tutoring one student. My tutoring philosophy is that every student is unique, and by gauging the student in the first few minutes, I can offer the best personalized instruction. I use and adaptive learning approach, specifically, the Scaffolding technique, where depending on the needs of the student, I try to offer more help in the first half of the session, and relatively less in the second half of the session where my goal is that the student acquires complete responsibility of the task, and this can be attenuated based on any number of attributes of the student, the subject, and the students' knowledge of the task and their level of education. I believe that I am a very professional and unique tutor because I have a breadth of knowledge and expertise in several academic disciplines where I care and cater to the specific needs of the students. Also, because I have applied an Adaptive Learning approach, Scaffolding, to Tutoring, my pedagogy and tutoring approach is very practical, effective, and has proven to be effective as judged by subsequent student performance and returning students that ask for my help.read more
Education
Aspen University
Doctorate of Science , Computer Science
2022 - 2025
Southern Careers Institute Powered by Woz_U
Certificate , Data Science
2020 - 2020
Washinton State University
PhD, Molecular Biology
2011 - 2013
Valdosta State University
Bachelor's of Science , Molecular Biology
2006 - 2010
Valdosta State University
Bachelor's of Science , Biology
1998 - 2001
Experience
Doctorate Student
Aspen University
Mar 2022 - present
Doctorate of Science program in Computer Science online with no mentor/advisor. I have completed app... roximately half of the 20 required courses. The last 5 courses are devoted to conducting my dissertation research where I am going to develop domain specific pedagogical agents using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to develop a Large Language Model that will act as a pedagogical agent for eTutors offering the best help the Tutor could offer the student during a one hour Tutoring session also based on a Question-and-Answer Reinforcement Learning model. I will integrate the pedagogical agent into Tutoring sessions where I am also developing a novel scoring mechanims to enhance eLearning through attenuation of an Adaptive Learning Approach that offers more or less tutoring help during the course of the one-hour Tutoring session in the hope to offer a more effective and more personalized eTutoring experience and enhance eLearning in a very short time period.read more
eTutor
Varsity Tutors
Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
Tutored Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math and other subjects on demand.
Student
Southern Careers Institute Powered by Woz_u
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
8 month Data Science certificate course focusing on Python, R, SQL, Tableau, AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Clo... ud Services. Also focused on managing and analyzing large data sets, Inferential Statistics, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Modeling and Simulation, and Real-life problem solving.read more
Adjunct Biology Instructor
Georgia Military College
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Taught lecture and lab Introductory Biology.
Doctorate Student
Washington State University
Feb 2011 - Aug 2013
Coursework and teaching. Researched the function and mechanism of a anti-tumor protein in Metabolic ... Dysregulation, specifically Obesity and Aging, and more specifically, fat development(adipogenesis) to implicate a novel protein involved in the regulation of fat production to further develop a novel way to study and treat various Metabolic dysfunctions.read more
Master's Student
Valdosta State University
Aug 2006 - Dec 2010
Coursework and teaching. Thesis projects includes (1) Elucidation of aquaporins in single celled gre... en algae and (2) Identification and characterization of two putative new species of green algae from the Coelastrella genus by molecular phylogenetics and electron microscopy.read more
Research Assistant
Brandeis University
Jul 2002 - Jul 2004
Used molecular techniques to study the function of novel regulatory proteins associated with bi-dire... ctional lipid transport via the Dynein motor protein.read more
Research Assistant
Joslin Diabetes Center
Jul 2001 - Jul 2002
Research on Genome Wide Association Studies of Type II Diabetes using molecular genotyping technique... s.read more
