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Spring 2022 DILab Social
We had our DILab social at GVU cafe on Friday, March 18th. Thanks everyone for joining the lab social in person and remotely!
AskJill in SkillSync: Explanation and Trust in AI
SkillSync is an NSF-funded effort engaging an industry-academia consortium led by EduWorks and including Georgia Tech, the University System of Georgia, Credentials Engine, and several other partners. The goal is to build an AI application that enables companies to succinctly express reskilling needs for their workforce and helps colleges describe their educational offerings and respond to companies’ needs. The interactive tool better aligns job requirements and opportunities with reskilling knowledge, skills, and abilities, and distills these reskilling needs to universities in a way that matches specific learning outcomes.
When using SkillSync, both employers and educators can ask questions to a virtual coach named AskJill that is based on Georgia Tech’s virtual teaching assistant Jill Watson. AskJill helps explain SkillSync’s vocabulary, functions, and processing, thereby making it more transparent and trustworthy to its users. AskJill in SkillSync is a collaboration between the Design & Intelligence Laboratory and C21U.
Link: http://www.skillsync.com
New Paper Accepted Into Design Science Journal
The paper “Multifunctional and Domain Independent? A Meta-Analysis of Case Studies of Biologically Inspired Design”, written by Ashok Goel and William Hancock, has just been accepted into the Design Science Journal, the flagship journal of the Design Research Society! More information about the publication can be found here: http://dilab.gatech.edu/publications/multifunctional-and-domain-independent-a-meta-analysis-of-case-studies-of-biologically-inspired-design/.
DILab Picnic at Piedmont Park
We had our DILab picnic at Piedmont Park on Saturday, May 1st. We haven’t met as a group for more than a year, so it was so nice to meet again. The weather was perfect for a picnic. We had so much fun talking, having some snacks, and playing cards and badminton!
Andrew Hornback
Andrew is a PhD student in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning and Interactive Intelligence. He is interested in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Biology. Prior to Georgia Tech, he did research in financial derivatives with Dr. Robert E. Whaley at Vanderbilt University.
New Podcast on Jill Watson and SAMI
Links:
- On the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/verizon-5g/networked-the-5g-future.html
- On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/networked-the-5g-future/id1533841767
- On Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/t-brand-studio/networked-the-5g-future
- On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3cjfq1REoqjCzSMksyv0d4?si=7xlPdMvFT3-GvDqb9Deguw
- SmartLink that will direct users to a platform they have on their phone, based on device: https://link.chtbl.com/Networked
Hiring a full-time research scientist and a half-time post-doc
Date: August 31, 2020
Georgia Tech’s Design Intelligence Laboratory (http://dilab.gatech.edu/) in the School of interactive Computing is seeking two Research Scientists.
1. Full-time Research Scientist I in AI/ML
Lead software developer for the Jill Watson research team (https://emprize.gatech.edu/) as part a new industry/academia collaborative project sponsored by the NSF Convergence Accelerator program. The RS will work with Georgia Tech’s Design & Intelligence Laboratory, C21U, EduWorks, and other partners, focusing on developing AI question answering agents. Job requires knowledge of AI, ML and NLP techniques, and experience with Python, SQL, Linux, and JavaScript. The RS will also help coordinate and document the project. This work can be done remotely but will require intense teamwork. Minimum qualifications: B.S. or M.S. with 5 years of experience in software development. Contact: Professor Ashok Goel at goel@cc.gatech.edu
2. Half-time Post-Doctoral Research Scientist II in Participatory and Human-Centered Design
Postdoctoral research scientist for the Jill Watson research team (https://emprize.gatech.edu/) as part of a new industry/academia collaborative project sponsored by the NSF Convergence Accelerator program. The RS will work with Georgia Tech’s Design & Intelligence Laboratory, C21U, EduWorks, and other partners, focusing on participatory and human-centered design of AI question answering agents. The RS will also help coordinate and document the project. This work can be done remotely but will require intense teamwork. Minimum qualifications: Ph.D. Contact: Professor Ashok Goel at goel@cc.gatech.edu
Get Involved
Date: Mar 11, 2021
Job Description: The is a full-time post-doctoral Research Scientist I position in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. The Research Scientist will focus on designing and developing AI techniques and tools for supporting online and blended learning, and for deploying and evaluating them at scale within Georgia Tech. We are especially interested in further developing, deploying, and analyzing extant AI technologies for intelligent tutors, conversational agents, question answering, social interactions, virtual laboratories, and virtual librarians. In particular, the Research Scientist will work with the faculty and students in Georgia Tech’s Design & Intelligence Laboratory to help develop these technologies and work with faculty and students across Georgia Tech to deploy and evaluate them.
This position requires expertise in AI as well as human learning and education. It also requires skills in software development, project management, data collection and analysis, documentation, as well as working with people.
Contact: Professor Ashok Goel at goel@cc.gatech.edu