Tanja Käser
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Heads the ML4ED laboratory, applying machine learning to education, such as student modelling and adaptive learning environments.
Tanja Käser's lab at EPFL works on learning & education technology, signal processing & information theory and language & society. 80 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly AAAI and ACL. 8 PhD students. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 21/ year
- at T1 venues
- 15%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 18 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 30 papers2025 · T1 4
- 22 papers2024 · T1 3
- 10 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: AAAI, ACL, CHI, EMNLP, CSCW
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Learning & education technology28 papers
- Language & society8 papers
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- adaptive learning0 papers
- applying machine0 papers
Paper list
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202618 papers
- CHI : CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsAdaptive Tutoring Modalities for Supporting Learners’ Reflective Writing Practices (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationAI-Driven Analytics of Team-Teaching Talk: Acoustic Patterns Across Experience, Cohorts and the Learning Design (opens in a new tab)
- Computers and Education: Artificial IntelligenceCan students judge like experts? A large-scale study on the pedagogical quality of AI and human personalized formative feedback (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationDesigning and Evaluating AI-Based Reflection Support Systems for Students (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Evaluating Answer Leakage Robustness of LLM Tutors against Adversarial Student Attacks
- AAAI (T1)Investigating Social Bias Propagation in Federated Fine-tuning of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Festival of LearningMore Correcting or Confounding? When an AI Arguing Agent Informed by Common Student Misconceptions Joins Case-Based Peer-Argumentation in a Real Course
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationMoving Beyond Review: Applying Language Models to Planning and Translation in Reflection (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)PaperMentor: A Human-Centered Multi-Agent Writing Tutor for AI Research Papers on Overleaf (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationREFINE: Real-World Exploration of Interactive Feedback and Student Behaviour (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationScalable and Explainable Learner-Video Interaction Prediction Using Multimodal Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationScenario-Based Learning through and with AI: Evidence-Informed Simulations for Education Leaders
202530 papers
- CHI : CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems“Piecing Data Connections Together Like a Puzzle”: Effects of Increasing Task Complexity on the Effectiveness of Data Storytelling Enhanced Visualisations (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationBloomTutor: Retrieval Augmentation for Bloom’s Taxonomy Question Generation
- International Conference on Educational Data MiningBridging the Data Gap: Using LLMs to Augment Datasets for Text Classification (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational ApplicationsChallenges for AI in Multimodal STEM Assessments: a Human-AI Comparison (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationClickSight: Interpreting Student Clickstreams to Reveal Insights on Learning Strategies via LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATIONDifferent Topics, Similar Patterns: the Consistency of Learners and Learning Across Interactive Stem Simulations (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Technology Enhanced LearningEducator Professional Development Through LA and AIED Participatory Design: A Missing Link (opens in a new tab)
- International Workshop on AI in Education and Educational ResearchEnhancing Critical Thinking in Education by Means of a Socratic Chatbot (opens in a new tab)
- Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language TechnologiesGrammar Control in Dialogue Response Generation for Language Learning Chatbots (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationHow Instructional Sequence and Personalized Support Impact Diagnostic Strategy Learning (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)iLLuMinaTE: An LLM-XAI Framework Leveraging Social Science Explanation Theories Towards Actionable Student Performance Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Intrinsic User-Centric Interpretability through Global Mixture of Experts (opens in a new tab)
202422 papers
- 32 ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization1st International Workshop on User-Centered Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Educational Data (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SytemsA Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Technology Enhanced LearningAI or Human? Evaluating Student Feedback Perceptions in Higher Education (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationAn Interpretable Approach to Identify Performance Indicators Within Unstructured Learning Environments (opens in a new tab)
- PNAS (T1)Could ChatGPT get an engineering degree? Evaluating higher education vulnerability to AI assistants (opens in a new tab)
- 47 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalCourse Recommender Systems Need to Consider the Job Market (opens in a new tab)
- 29 Conference on Intelligent User InterfacesEnhancing Peer Review with AI-Powered Suggestion Generation Assistance: Investigating the Design Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in EducationEnhancing Procedural Writing Through Personalized Example Retrieval: A Case Study on Cooking Recipes (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in EducationEvaluating the Impact of Learner Control and Interactivity in Conversational Tutoring Systems for Persuasive Writing (opens in a new tab)
- 16 International Conference on Computer Supported EducationExplainable AI for Unsupervised Machine Learning: A Proposed Scheme Applied to a Case Study with Science Teachers (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationExploring the Potential of Automated and Personalized Feedback to Support Science Teacher Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SytemsFashioning Creative Expertise with Generative AI: Graphical Interfaces for GAN-Based Design Space Exploration Beter Support Ideation Than Text Prompts for Difusion Models (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- —Co-Designing a Teacher Tool for Visualizing Self-Regulated Learning Behaviors
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIEDConsistency of Inquiry Strategies Across Subsequent Activities in Different Domains
- CHI (T1)Fashioning the Future: Unlocking the Creative Potential of Deep Generative Models for Design Space Exploration (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationHow Close are Predictive Models to Teachers in Detecting Learners at Risk? (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)MultiModN- Multimodal, Multi-Task, Interpretable Modular Networks
- International Journal Of Artificial Intelligence In EducationSimulated Learners in Educational Technology: A Systematic Literature Review and a Turing-like Test (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Educational Data MiningTo speak or not to speak, and what to speak, when doing task actions collaboratively (opens in a new tab)
- LAK : The International Learning Analytics and Knowledge ConferenceTrusting the Explainers: Teacher Validation of Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Course Design (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Educational Data MiningUnderstanding Revision Behavior in Adaptive Writing Support Systems for Education (opens in a new tab)
- AIEDVisualizing Self-Regulated Learner Profiles in Dashboards: Design Insights from Teachers (opens in a new tab)
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EDIC Computer and Communication Sciences PhD
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