Faculty and Core Participants
Timothy Rogers
Credentials: Professor, Psychology
Position title: PI, Director
Computational models of human learning, memory, and language
Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu
Credentials: Professor, Computer Science
Position title: Co-PI, Co-director
Machine Learning, machine teaching, natural language processing
Martha Alibali
Credentials: Professor, Psychology
Position title: Co-PI
Cognitive development and education
Rob Nowak
Credentials: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Position title: Co-PI
Machine learning, optimization, signal processing, sparsity
Martina Rau
Credentials: Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Position title: Co-PI
Intelligent tutoring systems for elementary and university education
Chuck Kalish
Credentials: Professor, Educational Psychology
Position title: Core Faculty
Cognitive Development, inductive inference, social cognition
David Kaplan
Credentials: Professor, Educational Psychology
Position title: Core Faculty
Quantitative methods in education and behavioral sciences
Percival Matthews
Credentials: Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Position title: Core Faculty
Cognitive approaches to mathematical representation and learning
Bilge Mutlu
Credentials: Associate Professor, Computer Science
Position title: Core Faculty
Human/computer interaction, robotics, social machine behavior
Rebecca Willett
Credentials: Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Position title: Core Faculty
Machine learning, optimization, signal processing, sparsity
Kate McCleary
Credentials: Associate Researcher, WCER
Position title: Evaluator
Intercultural learning, university-partnerships, empowerment, underrepresented minorities and women in STEM
Christine Pribbenow
Credentials: LEAD Center Director, WCER
Position title: Evaluator
Student and faculty learning, educational programming, underrepresented minorities and women in STEM
Caitlin Iverson
Credentials: Program Manager
Science communication, professional development, university-community partnerships
Graduate Students: Cohort 1
John Vito Binzak
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Educational Psychology
Projects: Beyond Magnitude, Brain Imaging
Blake Mason
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: Chemistry Learning
Graduate Students: Cohort 2
Lowell Thompson
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience
Visual Perception, Psychophysics, Electrophysiology, Neural Network Modeling
Graduate Students: Cohort 3
Harrison Rosenberg
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, and Engineering Education
Fangyun (Olivia) Zhao
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology
Project: Social Robotics
Emotions, Social Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction,
Graduate Students: Cohort 4
Raymond Doudlah
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience
Multisensory integration, sensorimotor associations, machine learning
Rahul Parhi
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Theoretical Machine Learning
Sarah Sant’Ana
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology
Classification and Prediction of Addictive Behaviors
Melissa Schoenlein
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology
Visual perception, color cognition, learning and transfer
Graduate Students: Cohort 5
Yun-Shiuan (Sean) Chuang
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Psychology
Email:
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Human mathematical cognition, Computational modeling, Machine Learning, Cognitive neuroscience
Glenn Palmer
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Computer Sciences
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Education
Laura Stegner
Credentials: Ph.D. Student, Computer Sciences
Human-Computer Interaction, Social Robotics
Graduate Students: Cohort 6
Independent Program Advisory Committee
Richard Baraniuk
Professor in the Engineering school at Rice University and founder of OpenStax, who works to develop free personalized education materials
Ken Keodinger
Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University whose research focuses on technology and education
James L McClelland
National Academy of Sciences member who pioneered the application of neural networks to understanding human cognition