Design Intelligence Lab
Making the invisible visible
Jared Gage is pursuing a master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has professionally worked in data analytics and engineering within multiple industries. He is a graduate research assistant for the DILab w, specifically on data engineering and anonymization efforts. He received a BS from UCLA in Cognitive Science and Computing. Jared’s research interests include Neural-inspired AI systems and High Performance ML.
Anthony Chen is a part time graduate student at Georgia Tech studying computer science with a specialization in machine learning. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 2023 with a bachelor of science in computer science. Anthony is interested in the intersections of artificial intelligence, education, and intelligent systems.
Learn more here: https://achen2089.github.io/.
Stephen Buckley is working on a Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, concentration in machine learning. Stephen is a Graduate Research Assistant for the VERA project, and his research focuses on personalized learning in inquiry-based modeling. Stephen also achieved his Bachelor’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
Dinesh Ayyappan is an educator and researcher with roots in South India, Nebraska, and New Jersey. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon (B.S., Mechanical Engineering) and Boston Teacher Residency (M.Ed.), and his teaching journey has taken him from Boston public schools to international institutions in the Himalayas and Singapore, where he is currently based. While pursuing a Master’s in computer science at Georgia Tech, he has been working in the Design & Intelligence Lab on the VERA project since 2023. He co-authored a paper accepted to Intelligent Tutoring Systems ’24 (link) and is working on a Master’s Project researching metacognitive skills for working with AI tutors. When not coding or teaching, Dinesh can be found cycling at dawn, swimming, or exploring the world with his wife and daughter.
Rhea R B (Rhea Ravandur Basappa) is pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science and specialising in Interactive Intelligence. She is currently working on the SAMI project in Dilab. Rhea has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Outside of Dilab she enjoys dancing and trains in Bharatanatyam.
Research Interests: Human-AI interaction, AI in education and the intersection of AI and Cognitive Science.
Karan is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, currently working on the Jill Watson project. He is broadly interested in developing AI tools for scaling quality education. His research interest includes machine teaching, natural language processing, and conversational systems.
