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Jan 16, 2026 Our paper titled Towards Adaptive Culturally-Responsive Computing: Multimodal Sensing of Goals and Processes During Interactions With a Co-created Robot got accepted to the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026. This paper integrates LLMs with rule-based systems to promote learner reflections during their interactions with a co-created robot.
Sep 11, 2025 I submitted a full paper to the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. This paper integrates LLMs with rule-based systems to promote learner reflections during their interactions with a co-created robot.
Jul 24, 2025 I presented my full paper titled: Beyond Static Measures: Temporal Analysis of Lexical Alignment in Human-Human Learning With a Teachable Robot at AIED in Palermo, Italy.
Feb 19, 2025 I submitted a full paper to the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. This paper talks about building and analyzing temporal lexical alignment trajectories in human-human-robot collaborative learning interactions.
Sep 13, 2024 I will be in Krems, Austria from Sep 16 - Sep 20 for the Nineteenth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. Looking forward to meeting fellow researchers and PhD students. Come and say hi if you are also there.
Aug 21, 2024 I’ll be teaching CS0011 Introduction to Computing for Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh during Fall 2024.
Jun 15, 2024 Received a full scholarship from the Educational Data Mining Society to attend the Educational Data Mining 2024 (EDM) conference at Atlanta, Georgia from July 14-17. I will be presenting our accepted work in the Learning analytics and recommender systems session and will also be presenting a poster for my doctoral consortium paper.
Jun 14, 2024 Our work titled Multimodal Sensing of Goals and Activities During Interactions With a Co-created Robot has been accepted as a poster paper at the 19th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) to be held at Krems, Austria from 16-20 September 2024.
Apr 19, 2024 Received a partial Scholarship from the AIED Society to attend the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2024) in Brazil from July 8-12, 2024. I will be participating in the conference as a Student Volunteer.
Apr 15, 2024 Our work titled Building Learner Activity Models From Log Data Using Sequence Mapping and Hidden Markov Models has been accepted as a short paper at the 17th Educational Data Mining (EDM) conferece to be held at Atlanta, Georgia from 14-17 July 2024.
Apr 05, 2024 My work titled Designing Simulated Students to Emulate Learner Activity Data in an Open-Ended Learning Environment has been accepted to be presented as a poster in the Doctoral Consortium at the 17th Educational Data Mining (EDM) conferece to be held at Atlanta, Georgia from 14-17 July 2024.
Nov 10, 2023 Our team won the third place in Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2. Our bot is the first multimodal task-oriented dialogue bot with sign language instructions. You can try it on your Alexa device. Just say “Alexa, open isabel bot”.