Jedediyah “Jed” Williams (He/Him)

Jedediyah Williams is a high school STEM teacher in Massachusetts and a recipient of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). He served his previous district as a Science Department Head and Mathematics Department Head. Jedediyah holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Teaching, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Jedediyah’s undergraduate research focused on AI sensor networks for smart homes. As a graduate student, Jedediyah was a recipient of an NSF Graduate K-12 Teaching Fellowship and helped develop culturally situated design tools for mathematics classrooms. His later research focused on multibody dynamics and the simulation of robotic systems. Jedediyah’s work has reached the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge as well as the finals of two NASA Centennial Challenges, building AI systems for semi- and fully-autonomous robots in support of missions to the Moon and Mars.