Recent activities

• Invited to give talk at AI and Adaptive Education Conference in Beijing, May 2019.
• Awarded CDM summer faculty research grant for FakeNews game.
• Sabbatical, Fall 2018, Winter 2019! Working on computational neuroscience modeling (with Rachelle Jacobs), deep learning for tracking animal movements (with Doug Wallace, NIU), intelligent tutoring for source evaluation with Jean-François Rouet (U. Poitiers, France) and M.A.Britt (NIU).
• Published chapter: "Computational analysis of explanatory essay structure" in Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Deep Learning
• Published chapter: "Computer-based assessment of essays based on multiple documents" in Handbook of Multiple Source Use
• Presented paper: "Active Learning for Improving Machine Learning of Student Explanatory Essays" at AIED 2018 in London.
• Attended the NSF-sponsored workshop: Experiments and Models for Teaching Undergraduate Neuroscience at the University of Missouri in July, 2017.
• Developed and taught Computational Neuroscience class, Winter 2018.
• Helped develop the new Bachelors degree in Neuroscience at DePaul.
• Gave an invited talk on "Identifying causal structure in student essays" at Valtech, and at the DePaul CDM Research Colloquium.
• At the Intelligent Tutoring Systems conference in Zagreb, Croatia, presented the paper, "Stratified learning for reducing training set size", exploring one way to improve a machine learning approach to identifying structure in student causal essays.
• Received a DePaul Quality of Instruction Council Collaborative Instruction grant to develop the Introduction to Computational Neuroscience course along with Eric Norstrom from Biology, and Sandra Virtue from Psychology.
• Taught Foundations of HCI and Learner-Centered Design in Spring 2016.
• Served as a Senior Program Committee for Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2016.
• Invitee to the 2015 Neuromorphic Natural Language Processing workshop in Telluride.