Dissertations Supervised
- Hua Ai, Intelligent Systems, PhD 2009: User Simulation for Spoken Dialog System Develpment (now Manager of Data Science 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 Data Scientist, Naval Air Systems Command)
- Luca Lugini, Computer Science, PhD defended 2020: Analysis of Collaborative Argumentation in Text-based Classroom Discussions (now at Ancestry)
- Wencan Luo, Computer Science, PhD 2017: Automatic Summarization for Student Reflective Responses (now at Google)
- Huy Nguyen, Computer Science, PhD 2017: Context-aware Argument Mining and Its Application in Education (now at Liulishuo)
- Zahra Rahimi, Intelligent Systems, PhD 2019: Linguistic Entrainment in Multi-Party Spoken Dialogues (now at Pandora)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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