Ashok Goel
Professor
Studies cognitive systems and AI in education, including virtual teaching assistants.
Ashok Goel's lab at Georgia Tech works on human-AI collaboration & trust, learning & education technology and computational neuroscience & cognition. 48 papers since 2023. 174 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 13/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 174
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 19 papers2025 · T1 0
- 12 papers2024 · T1 0
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Learning & education technology13 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust3 papers
- Computational neuroscience & cognition0 papers
- cognitive systems0 papers
- assistants0 papers
Paper list
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202612 papers
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol.A metacognitive architecture for correcting LLM errors in AI agents (opens in a new tab)
- ToM4AI , 7.A Metacognitive Architecture for ToM Revision in AI Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Georgia Tech Academic AI Playbook, Edition, edited by David A. Joyner & Nimisha Roy (Georgia Institute of Technology, ). Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.Beyond the Chatbot: Deploying Ivy, a Knowledge-Based AI Coach, in a Georgia Tech Online AI Course
- The International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.Conditioning Context Shapes Stateful Personalization in Educational Recommender Systems
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale (pp. 69-78).Developing Models of Procedural Skills using an AI-assisted Text-to-Model Approach (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 29-38). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Evaluating Learner Representations for Differentiation Prior to Instructional Outcomes (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-21).Futuring Social Assemblages: How Enmeshing AIs into Social Life Challenges the Individual and the Interpersonal (opens in a new tab)
- Handbook of Generative AI in Education: Integrating Research into Practice (pp. 635-665). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Generative AI for Metacognition in AI Agents
- Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 2474-2496).Guidelines for Designing AI Technologies to Support Adult Learning (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 623-638). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Impact of Multimodal and Conversational AI on Learning Outcomes and Experience (opens in a new tab)
- —Ivy: Tracing Procedural Explanations to a Skill Model in a Graduate AI Course
- Georgia Tech Academic AI Playbook, Edition, edited by David A. Joyner & Nimisha Roy (Georgia Institute of Technology, ). Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.SAMI: A Social AI Agent that Increases Social Engagement in Online Classrooms
202519 papers
- Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).“Good” XAI Design: For What? In Which Ways? (opens in a new tab)
- EDULEARN25 Proceedings (pp. 8737-8746). IATED.A highly configurable data analytics pipeline for learning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Innovation and Responsibility in AI-Supported Education Workshop (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (Vol.A Personalized AI Coach to Assist in Self-Directed Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ToM4AI , 26.Adaptable Social AI Agents
- EDULEARN25 Proceedings (pp. 8449-8457). IATED.AI adoption in education: How cognitive, motivational, and demographic factors shape help-seeking with a virtual teaching assistant (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series (Vol.Bidirectional Feedback-Based Personalization of Learning using Multi-tier AI: A Real-World Assessment of its Efficacy in Classrooms (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 314-324).Can an AI Partner Empower Learners to Ask Critical Questions? (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 281-291). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Designing an AI coaching system for interactive video-based skill learning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 2328-2349).Explainable AI for Daily Scenarios from End-Users’ Perspective: Non-Use, Concerns, and Ideal Design (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1-28.How Online Learners Engage in Self-Directed Modeling: A Behavioral Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series (Vol.Human-Centric Teaching at Scale in Online Education through Bidirectional Feedback in Human-AI Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 233-246). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Ivy: a hybrid knowledge-based and generative AI coach for explaining procedural skills (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 174-187). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.A Constructivist Framing of Wheel Spinning: Identifying Unproductive Behaviors with Sequence Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Ai Magazine, 45(1), 77-82.AI‐ALOE: AI for reskilling, upskilling, and workforce development (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of ToMinHAI at CHI.Applying theory of mind to personalize ai for supporting life transitions (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 9019-9031).Can active label correction improve LLM-based modular AI systems? (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale (pp. 269-273).Does Jill Watson Increase Teaching Presence? (opens in a new tab)
- S. Tulli & D. W. Aha (Eds.), Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence: Research and Practice. CRC Press.Explanation as Question Answering Based on User Guides (opens in a new tab)
- AI Mag. 45(1): 4-5Introduction to the Special Issue (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationJill Watson: A Virtual Teaching Assistant powered by ChatGPT (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 78-90). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Jill Watson: scaling and deploying an AI conversational agent in online classrooms (opens in a new tab)
- V. Castro (Chair), AI Across Educational Contexts. [Paper session]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadephia, PA. https://doi.org/10.3102/2103270Personalization of AI-supported ecological learning: Affective experiences as a function of traits, beliefs, and behaviors (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 351-360). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Social ai agents too need to explain themselves (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).Theory of mind in human-ai interaction (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale (pp. 373-377).A Scalable Architecture for Conducting A/B Experiments in Educational Settings (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 708-713). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.Deidentifying student writing with rules and transformers (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-16).Designing Responsible AI: Adaptations of UX Practice to Meet Responsible AI Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- AI Magazine, 44(3), 345-348.Looking back, looking ahead: Strategic initiatives in AI and NSF’s AI Institutes Program (opens in a new tab)
- Information and Learning Sciences, 124(9-10), 266-284.PIILO: an open-source system for personally identifiable information labeling and obfuscation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went174 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 6
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