Dissertations Supervised
Tazin Afrin , Computer Science, PhD 2022:
Desirable revisions of evidence and reasoning for argumentative writing (now at ETS)
Hua Ai , Intelligent
Systems, PhD 2009:
User
Simulation for Spoken Dialog System Develpment (now at Delta Airlines)
Min Chi ,
Intelligent Systems, PhD 2009:
Do
Micro-Level Tutorial Decisions Matter: Applying Reinforcement
Learning To Induce Pedagogical Tutorial Tactics (now Associate
Professor, NC State University)
Michael Lipschultz ,
Computer Science, Phd 2015:
Adapting the
Scheduling of Illustrations and Graphs to Learners in Conceptual
Physics Tutoring (now at TetraScience)
Luca
Lugini , Computer
Science, PhD defended 2020:
Analysis of Collaborative Argumentation in Text-based Classroom
Discussions
(now at eBay)
Wencan Luo , Computer
Science, PhD 2017:
Automatic Summarization for Student Reflective Responses (now at Google)
Ahmed Magooda , Computer
Science, PhD 2022:
Techniques to Enhance
Abstractive Summarization Model Training for Low Resource Domains (now at Microsoft)
Huy Nguyen , Computer
Science, PhD 2017: Context-aware Argument Mining and Its
Application in Education (now at Amazon)
Zahra Rahimi , Intelligent
Systems, PhD 2019:
Linguistic Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues (now at Amazon)
Mihai
Rotaru , Computer Science, PhD 2008:
Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Systems
(now Head of Research and Development, Textkernel )
Arthur Ward , Intelligent
Systems, PhD 2010: Reflection and Learning Robustness in a Natural Language Conceptual Physics Tutoring System
Wenting Xiong ,
Computer Science, PhD 2015:
Helpfulness-Guided Review
Summarization (now at Facebook)
Mingzhi Yu ,
Computer Science, PhD 2022:
Entrainment in Human-to-Human Dialogue and its Application in End-to-End Dialogue Systems (now at Amazon)
Fan Zhang , Computer
Science, PhD 2017: Towards Building an
Intelligent Revision Assistant for Argumentative Writings (now at Google)
Haoran (Colin) Zhang , Computer Science, PhD 2021:
Exploring Automated Essay Scoring Models for Multiple Corpora and
Topical Component Extraction from Student Essays (now
at Facebook)
Teaching
CS 0441: Discrete Structures
for Computer Science (Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2010)
CS 1571: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2008,
2017; Spring 2023)
CS 1573: Artificial Intelligence Application Development (Spring
2003, 2004)
CS 1590: Social Implications of Computing Technology (Spring 2012,
2013)
CS 1671: Human Language Technologies (Fall 2018, Spring 2020,
Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
CS 2001: Research Topics in Computer Science (Fall 2014)
CS 2710 / ISSP 2160: Foundations of
Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2006, 2009, 2010)
CS 2731 / ISSP 2230: Introduction to Natural Language Processing
(Fall 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2013; Spring 2017; Fall 2019;
Fall 2020)
CS 3710 / ISSP 3565: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Dialog Systems)
(Spring 2002)
CS 3710 / ISSP
3565: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Affective Spoken Dialogue Systems)
(Spring 2006)
CS 3710 / ISSP 3565: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Speech and Natural Language Processing for Educational Applications)
(Spring 2009)
CS 3710 / ISSP 3565: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing for Extracting Social and Interactional Meaning)
(Fall 2012)
CS 3710 / ISSP 3565: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
(Computational Argumentation)
(Spring 2021)