Farshid Ghezelbash is an M.S. student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He previously earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on computational and experimental biomechanics. Currently, Farshid is a researcher at DILab, where he is working on the Jill Watson project.

Dianze Liu is an M.S. student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. At the Design Intelligence Lab, he works with the Jill Watson team, focusing on building more effective AI-powered Virtual Teaching Assistants. His work explores multimodal system design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), hallucination mitigation, and other cutting-edge large language model technologies.

Outside of research, Dianze enjoys sports and motorsports, with a particular passion for football. Go Buckeyes and Jackets!

Connect with Dianze on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianze-liu-bb7242116/

Ankita is a master’s student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. At the Design Intelligence Lab, she is part of the Ivy team that integrates an intelligent AI coach into instructional video content to enable context-aware, active learning. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and currently works as a Data Scientist. 

In her free time, Ankita enjoys traveling, cooking, and playing tennis.

Mariam Tmane completed her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Georgia State before beginning her Master’s in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She serves as a Research Assistant in the lab, working on personalized learning analytics in the VERA team. Her interests include data analytics, machine learning, and human-centered system design. She has experience interning as a Software Engineer, working with AI and machine learning tools.

Christopher Demers Jimenez is an OMSCS student at the Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in AI. He is also a student researcher at the Design Intelligence Lab on the VERA team. He holds a Ph.D. in the English from the University of Pennsylvania, and he currently works as an Associate Professor of English at Stetson University. His literary research examines the discourse of catastrophe in 20th- and 21st-century global Anglophone literature, with interdisciplinary interests in ecocriticism, nuclear criticism, animal studies, biopolitics, and the sociology of literature. His work in the digital humanities focuses on the aesthetics of digital typography, the algorithmic politics of machine learning, and the computational dimensions of alphabets & technical standards such as Unicode.

Adnan Ahmed is an OMSCS student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, and a researcher in the Design Intelligence Lab on the VERA team. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University and currently works as a Software Engineer at Bank of America. His research interests lie at the intersection of cognitive engineering and AI, with a focus on self-explanation and metacognitive processes in intelligent systems. Outside of his academic and professional work, he enjoys playing basketball and traveling.

Ishtyaq is a current Master’s student in the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech, currently working on the A4L Project. He is interested in the infrastructure and the development of next-generation Agentic AI and Generative AI tools, with an emphasis on how to create and scale solutions that solve critical real-world needs. Outside of school, Ishtyaq works full-time at Fiserv, Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer in the Server Build & Orchestration team.