Florida Professional Teacher Certificate
Physics 6-12, Mathematics 6-12, Computer Science K-12, Engineering & Technology 6-12
Certificate #710400, Issued Jul 2015, Expires Jun 2026
Academic Employment History
AP Teacher, Advanced STEM Academy, Everglades High School, Miramar FL, Aug 2015 – Present
• Raised AP Physics C Mechanics pass rate from 26% to 89%
• Raised AP Calculus AB exam pass rate from 24% to 67%
• Raised AP Calculus BC exam pass rate from 36% to 100%
AP Physics Reader, College Board, June 2023
NSF Research Experience for Teachers Summer Fellow, Florida International University (School of Computing and Information Sciences), Miami FL, 2021 and 2022
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Miami Dade College, Miami FL, Fall 2015 – Fall 2020
• PHY 1004C, Physics with Applications (Fall 2020)
• PHY 1020, Conceptual Physics (Spring 2016)
• PHY 1025, Basic Physics (Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, …)
• PHY 2048, University Physics I (Summer 2020, Fall 2016)
• PHY 2048L, Physics I Lab (Summer 2020, Fall 2016, Summer 2016)
• PHY 2049, University Physics II (Spring 2017)
• PHY 2049L, Physics II Lab (Summer 2020, Spring 2017)
• PHY 2053C, College Physics I (Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016)
• PHY 2054C, College Physics II (Summer 2017)
• PSC 1515, Energy in the Natural Environment (Spring 2017, Spring 2016)
Physics and Mathematics Teacher, Archdiocese of Miami, Miami FL, Aug 1992 – Jun 1996
• Physics, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, Pre-Calculus, Geometry
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Florida Memorial University, Miami FL, 1995–1996 Academic Year
• PHY 250+251, University Physics I (Fall 1995); PHY 252+253, University Physics II (Spring 1996)
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Miami Dade College, Miami FL, 1995–1996 Academic Year
• MGF 1113, General College Mathematics
Actuarial Employment History
Senior Consulting Actuary and Principal, Towers Watson, Atlanta GA, Oct 2007 – Jul 2015
Consulting Actuary and Manager, Aon Hewitt, Atlanta GA, Aug 2001 – Oct 2007
Actuarial Consultant, C S Consultants, Miami, FL, Jun 1996 – Aug 2001
Education
M.S., Mathematics, expected Summer 2024, University of West Florida
M.S., Physics, 1994, Florida International University
B.S., Mathematics, 1992, Florida International University
B.S., Physics, 1990, Florida International University
Languages
Native fluency in English and Spanish
Publication in Peer-Reviewed Journals
H. Fiebig, R. Woloshyn and A. Dominguez, Meson-Meson Scattering Phase Shifts in (2+1)-Dimensional Lattice QED, Nuclear Physics B 418(3), 1994, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0550321394905347
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
P. Padrao, A. Dominguez, L. Bobadilla, and R. Smith, “Towards Learning Ocean Models for Long-term Navigation in Dynamic Environments”, IEEE Oceans 2022 – Chennai, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9775460
S. Alemany, A. Dominguez, I. Grapel, N. Pissinou, “Towards Parametric Robust Activation Functions in Adversarial Machine Learning”, ICLR 2023 – Kigali, https://openreview.net/pdf?id=oKa5_mxHBV