Neil Heffernan:
Associate Professor
Some Recent Videos
A little bit about my interests.A recent talk on data mining.
Current Activities
- I am well known for the ASSISTment System I created. Read about it here. I am an expert in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Data Mining, and the Cognitive Science of Mathematical Cognition (i.e., how do people learn math topics)). I co-direct the new PhD + Masters Programs in Learning Sciences and Technologies.
- Awards, News, Grants and Publications Page (CV): All of my peer reviewed papers are available.
- BioSketch
- Want to share screen with me while we talk on the phone? Click here for directions.
- I am interested in hosting PostDocs via NSF Fellowships for Transformative Computational Science using CyberInfrastructure (CI TraCS) or CRA NSF Fellowships . I am looking for a a bright postdoc who can help me supervise my phd students, and make ASSISTments useful, while at the same time, getting lots of research out the door.
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New! Neil Heffernan is looking for a few PhD and masters students to work on several new grants. See http://teacherwiki.assistment.org/GK12-Graduate-Student-Application for more info. Here are some research areas I work on:
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.
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.
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.
- Classes I have taught:
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New
2012
B Term cs4341 AI Class Home page
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Old
2012 Spring CS 534 AI 2012 Graduate Class Home page
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Old
2011 Fall
CS 568 AI for Adaptive Technolgies Class Home page
- Old Fall 2010 I taught a class on machine learning applied to educational data sets
- Old Spring 2010:
User Modeling
. This class was amazingly successful with 7 of the 9 students getting peer-reviewed paper accepted our of thier class project.
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Old
2008
B Term cs4341 AI Class Home page
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Old
View each other via web cams.
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Old
Fall
2007 Intelligent Pedagogical
Agents
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Old Class Pages- 2003-
Class
page for cs525t: Special Topics: Intelligent Tutoring Systems and
Cognitive Modeling . Fall of 2003
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Old 2004 Class page
for cs534 Fall 2004(Intro to AI- Graduate level)
- Graduate Students
- Some “current” PhD Students (usually out of date)
- Leena Razzaq (Graduated Sept 2009- Now at UMASS Amherst)
- Jozsef Patvarczki
- Mingyu Feng (Graduated Sept 2009- Now a scientist at SRI International)
- Zachary Pardos
- Yue Gong
- YuTao Wang
- Dovan Rai
- Peter Swire
- Some Current Masters Student
- Shubhendu Trivedi
- Zachary R Broderick (Developed a parent notification system in ASSISTments that led to better home school communication). (Thesis)
- Adam Goldstein
- Rob Martin
- Paul Kehrer (working on software engineering use of Google Web Tool Kit for ASSISTments)
- Past Masters Students and MQPs
- See Dr. Heffernan's algebra tutoring system on line see here at WPI. See also my old CMU web page
- My work calendar is here for all to see when I am free (private meeting will by listed as busy). If you want to schedule a meeting email (td@wpi.edu) Trica Desmaris, my administrative assistant, and she can set up a time.
- Contact Info: 508-831-5569. Email is nth at wpi dot edu. Fuller Labs 237. 100 Institute Road, Computer Science Department , Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA. 10609. Directions and map.