November 2025: Joe Meléndez and Emma Braaten staffed a SceneCraft booth at the Annual Conference of the National Science Teaching Association.
October 2025: EngageAI All-Hands team meeting held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
October 2025: Andy Smith joined as the new Assistant Director replacing Dan Carpenter who transitioned to industry.
October 2025: EngageAI team presented one paper at the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2025).
September 2025: EngageAI graduate student Halim Acosta successfully defended his dissertation, “Multimodal Learning Analytics for Student Modeling of Collaborative Behaviors in Collaborative Game-Based Learning Environments.”
September 2025: Managing Director Wookhee Min participated in the panel “Children’s ASR in Action at National AI Institutes and Centers” at the International Workshop on Rethinking Children’s Automatic Speech Recognition for Education.
August 2025: EngageAI graduate students Halim Acosta, Daeun Hong, and Joyce Fonteles participated in the AI4Ed Graduate Fellows Summit.
July 2025: Co-PI Gautam Biswas and Research Scientist Ashwin Tudur Sadashiva co-organized the Multimodal Multiparty Learning Analytics Workshop, collocated with the 18th International Conference on Educational Data Mining.
July 2025: EngageAI team members presented four papers at the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED25) and one paper at the 18th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM25).
June 2025: PI James Lester participated in the DRK-12 PI Meeting Panel, “AI and STEM Education: Opportunities and Impacts.”
May 2025: PI James Lester gave an invited talk about EngageAI at the Workshop on Narrative Understanding at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).
April 2025: PI James Lester co-presented with the iSAT and AI-ALOE AI Institutes in the session “Next-Generation Educational AI Research from Three NSF-funded National AI Institutes” at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
April 2025: A paper titled “Coverage-based Fairness in Multi-document Summarization” by Snigdha Chaturvedi and colleagues received the Senior Area Chair award at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).
March 2025: Co-PI Cindy Hmelo-Silver was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
March 2025: Co-PI Gautam Biswas gave a keynote address titled “Harnessing Multimodal Analytics in the Classroom to Understand Students’ Collaborative Learning Behaviors” at the 15th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference.
February 2025: PI James Lester and co-PI Cindy Hmelo-Silver presented in the “Using Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Science Learning Opportunities” Session at the AAAS Annual Meeting (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
January 2025: Co-PI Mohit Bansal was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
October 2024: PI James Lester, co-PI Gautam Biswas, and Practitioner Advisory Board member Kip Glazer were featured on the Silver Lining for Learning podcast in an episode focused on the EngageAI Institute.
September 2024: EngageAI All-Hands team meeting held at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
July 2024: Co-PI Gautam Biswas gave the Test of Time Award Talk at the Seventeenth International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM24), titled “Assessing Student Learning in Open Ended Learning Environments From Sequential to Multimodal Data Analysis”.
July 2024: EngageAI team members presented three papers at the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED24).
June 2024: EngageAI team members Tiffany Barnes, Sarah Burriss, Joshua Danish, and Ole Molvig contributed to the recently released brief from CADRE, Toward Ethical and Just AI in Education Research.
April 2024: NC State research software engineer and computer science doctoral student Vikram Kumaran successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on automatically generating interactive narratives using natural language instruction.
April 2024: PI James Lester presented at the NSF National AI Institutes on Education Symposium and Generative AI Panel at AERA 2024.
March 2024: EngageAI team members had 3 papers accepted for publication at CVPR 2024.
March 2024: Interview with PI James Lester about the EngageAI Institute published in Winter/Spring 2024 issue of Edge Discovery Magazine.
February 2024: AI Magazine article on the EngageAI Institute published.
February 2024: Co-PI Jeremy Roschelle debated AI in education at the Brookings in Silicon Valley: Global Education and the Role of Technology event hosted by HP in Palo Alto, CA.
January 2024: EngageAI team members Krista Glazewski and Jonathan Rowe presented to the NC Governor’s Teacher Advisory Committee about using and teaching about AI in education.
January 2023: NC State computer science doctoral student Fahmid Fahid successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and has joined Meta.
December 2023: Co-PI Cindy Hmelo-Silver and Senior Personnel David Crandall participated in a “Conversations with the Connected Professor” faculty panel on teaching and learning with generative AI.
April 2023: Co-PI Jeremy Roschelle and Pati Ruiz from Digital Promise led a highly interactive session with school superintendents and leaders at the League of Innovative Schools meeting in Birmingham, AL
April 2023: Indiana University doctoral student Haesol Bae will be joining the Department of Educational Theory and Practice (ETAP) at the University at Albany, State University of New York as an assistant professor in Learning and Teaching with AI in Fall 2023
