See news coverage here: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/05/20/what-soldiers-doctors-and-professors-can-teach.html

Mukundan just graduated from MSCS this semester and will be pursuing his PhD degree in Computer Science at Northwestern University, starting Fall 2020. Mukundan worked on the Errol project during his time at DILab. Congratulations Mukundan! We are excited to see what the future holds for you 🙂

Varsha completed her MSCS degree from Georgia Tech in 2019. Varsha was a principle developer on the Jill Watson project during her time here at DILab. Congratulations to Varsha and we are excited to see what the future holds for you! 🙂

A recent news article we collaborated on has been published. The news article included our very own VERA (Virtual Experimentation Research Assistant) as one of the five AI applications in the fight against COVID19. Check it out here: https://www.onlineengineeringprograms.com/features/ai-fighting-covid-19

We have two papers accepted at Learning@Scale 2020. The first paper explores students’ perspectives on affect-sensitive technology in large educational context, led by PhD student Qiaosi Wang in collaboration with Shan Jing, Dr. David Joyner, Dr. Lauren Wilcox, Hong Li, Dr. Thomas Ploetz, and Dr. Betsy DiSalvo. The second paper…

New paper accepted at AIED 2020, led by PhD student Sungeun An, Co-authors Robert Bates, Jen Hammock, Spencer Rugaber, Emily Weigel and Ashok Goel. This paper explores scientific modeling using large scale knowledge.

Our work on designing and evaluating community-building virtual agent (Jill Watson Social Agent) is published at CHI2020 Late Breaking Work. This work is led by PhD student Qiaosi Wang, co-authors Shan Jing, Ida Camacho, David Joyner, and Ashok Goel. Congratulations to the team! This work can be viewed through ACM…

Tesca Fitzgerald (http://www.tescafitzgerald.com/) passed her dissertation defense recently. Her work is titled “Human-Guided Task Transfer for Interactive Robots”. Tesca is now a a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Here is an abstract of Tesca’s dissertation work: Abstract Adaptability is an essential skill in human cognition,…

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