Recent Updates

  • June 2025: PI James Lester served on 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).
  • December 2024: PI James Lester, co-PI Jeremy Roschelle, co-PI Gautam Biswas, and co-PI Cindy Hmelo-Silver published a blog with CADRE, titled “Using AI to Connect Game-Based and Narrative-Centered Learning“.
  • November 2024: EngageAI team member Vikram Kumaran presented a paper on LLM-based narrative generation at the Twentieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2024), titled “NarrativeGenie: Generating Narrative Beats and Dynamic Storytelling with Large Language Models“.
  • 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.
  • June 2024: EngageAI team members Caitlyn Snyder, Gautam Biswas, and Caleb Vatral won the CSCL Outstanding Long Paper award at the ISLS 2024 conference for their paper “Investigating Collaborative Problem Solving Behaviors during STEM+C Learning in Groups with Different Prior Knowledge Distributions“.
  • 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.
  • December 2023: Co-PI Jeremy Roschelle shared insights about AI in education with the Association of California School Administrators.
  • November 2023: Partnered with the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, as well as CoSN and SparkNC, for the AI in K-12 Education Convening.
  • October 2023: Attended and participated in the 2023 Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL), including presentations at AI Institute Expo Day.
  • September 2023: Participated in the NSF AI Institutes Congressional Showcase on Capitol Hill.
  • September 2023: NC State computer science doctoral student Dan Carpenter successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
  • August 2023: Held second EngageAI Institute Forum in Silicon Valley with 80 educational practitioners, researchers, developers, and funders to discuss how generative AI can empower educators as learning designers.
  • August 2023: Held Summer 2023 All-Hands Meeting at the Digital Promise offices in Redwood City, CA
  • July 2023: TWIML AI Podcast episode, “Unifying Vision and Language Models with Mohit Bansal | The TWIML AI Podcast” with Co-PI Mohit Bansal
  • May 2023: Digital Promise contributes to a new report published by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations
  • April 2023: Co-PI Cindy Hmelo-Silver elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 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
  • March 2023: Managing Director Jonathan Rowe presented a keynote at the LAK 2023 Workshop on Situating Affect in Learning Analytics
  • May 2022: World Bank EduTech Podcast episode, “Enabling New Forms of Student Learning through Artificial Intelligence” with PI James Lester and Co-PI Jeremy Roschelle
  • April 2022: Open position for a postdoctoral scholar in AI in Education at Indiana University – Bloomington
  • Dec 2021: Held virtual retreat of Institute key personnel
  • Nov 2021: PI James Lester gives plenary address at the National Academy of Education
  • Oct 2021: Official launch of the EngageAI Institute!