WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department

Neil Heffernan: Associate Professor

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Some Recent Videos

A little bit about my interests.
A recent talk on data mining.

Current Activities

  1. I am interested in machine learning, Bayesian networks, and data mining.    In fact, my student won a $3,000 dollar KDD Cup prize for our data mining work.  For graduate students from outside the US looking at this page, I suggest you read some of the work Zach and I have done.  He is a good model of a successful PhD student. 

  2. Those interested less in machine learning, but more in have a practical impact in education, should look the dissertation work of Leena .  She makes use of ASSISTments to create experiments.

  3. Those more interested in software engineering should also be interested in working with me.  Come help us build innovative software that has a real impact on student learning.  See ASSISTments for an example.

 

 

Learning Science and Technolgies Graduate Program

I help run the Learning Science and Technolgies Graduate Program. My other colleague Janice Gobert and I collobrate. Her work is described in this video.