Neil Heffernan: Associate Professor

Current Activities

• My calendar is here if you want to schedule a meeting.
• Grants and Publications Page
• BioSketch
• WebINarWithMe
• The "ASSISTment" Project is what I spend my research time on

• New! Neil Heffernan is looking for a few PhD and masters students to work on several new grants (Including from the US Dept of Education- see my grants page or this newspaper article ). See http://teacherwiki.assistment.org/GK12-Graduate-Student-Application for more info.

• See also the research topics I am interested in advising though this page is very dated.
• See also my class homepages

• 2008 B Term cs4341 AI Class Home page
• Old Fall 2007 Intelligent Pedagogical Agents
• OLD Class Pages- 2003- Class page for cs525t: Special Topics: Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Cognitive Modeling . Fall of 2003
• 2004 Class page for cs534 Fall 2004(Intro to AI- Graduate level)

• Annual Reports
• Graduate Students

• Some “current” PhD Students (usually out of date)

• Leena Razzaq
• Jozsef Patvarczki
• Mingyu Feng

• Current Masters Students Doing Research With Me

There are several students doing their master's with me, but since this list always gets out of date, I instead refer you to this

• Past Masters Students

• Vilmos Csizmadia
• Larrisa Orlova
• Leena Razzaq
• Ethan Croteau
• Jon Freyberger
• Matt Jarvis
• Tom Livak: Collaborative Warrior Tutoring
• Sanket Choksey : Developing an Affordable Authoring Tool For Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Michael Macasek: Towards Teachers Quickly Creating Tutoring Systems
• Terrence Turner The Assistment Builder: A tool for rapid tutor development
• Jason Walonowski Visual Feedback for Gaming Prevention in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Ruta Uplekar Tools to help build models that predict student learning
• Goss Nuzzo-Jones : The Common Tutor Object Platform
• Kai Rasmussen Developing a Cognitive Rule-Based Tutor for the ASSISTment System
• Nick Lloyd:  Measuring Student Engagement in an Intelligent Tutoring System

• The Library started storing IQP and MQP electronically in 2006 so below is some recent projects

• Abraao N Lourenco : IQP: Improving Methods of Teaching Mathematics in Middle School
• Christopher P Freeman, Michael Longqiang Zhang, Roderick Taylor & Cosmin Tudor : IQP: The Assistment Project
• Nathan J Krach : MQP: A Pilot Study of Methods in the Online Socratic Tutoring of Calculus
• David T Curran, David P Lamoureux & Loren Gjata : IQP: Methods of Tutoring with the Assistment Program
• Aaron G Holroyd & Ramon Harrington : IQP: Impact of Scaffolding in an Intelligent Tutoring System
• Kevin Kardian : MQP: Knowledge Engineering for Intelligent Tutoring
• Derek Radtke: MQP: Sequencing Content in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

• See Dr. Heffernan's algebra tutoring system on line see here at WPI
• See also my old CMU web page
• 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