Christopher J. MacLellan
Associate Professor
Leads the Teachable AI Lab, building computational models of human learning and AI systems for intelligent tutoring.
Christopher J. MacLellan's lab at Georgia Tech works on learning & education technology. 52 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly CHI and NeurIPS. 6 PhD students and 4 master's students. 30 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 15%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 30
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 17 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 20 papers2025 · T1 1
- 11 papers2024 · T1 2
- 4 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICLR, ICML
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Learning & education technology11 papers
- tutoring4 papers
- intelligent tutoring3 papers
- building computational0 papers
- human learning0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202617 papers
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyA Rational Account of Categorization Based on Information Theory (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsA Unified Account of Concepts and Chunks (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of The Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial IntelligenceAI Unplugged: Embodied Interactions for AI Literacy in Higher Education (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting with Rank-1 Fisher from Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the association for computational linguisticsCobwebTM: Probabilistic Concept Formation for Lifelong and Hierarchical Topic Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Game Jams Hackathons and Game Creation EventsDice Adventure Human-AI Teaming Competition: Using Collaborative Game to Study Hybrid Teaming Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsDiffusion Models and Concept Formation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the association for computational linguisticsGrounded Concreteness: Human-Like Concreteness Sensitivity in Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceGuidelines for Designing AI Technologies to Support Adult Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsPlanning With Linguistic Hierarchical Task Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Cognitive Systems ResearchRobust Incremental Learning of Visual Concepts without Catastrophic Forgetting (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsSMTB: Fast Structure-Mapping with Tight Bounds (opens in a new tab)
202520 papers
- Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play(A)I Can Play Gomoku: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Strategic Games (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the First WI-IAT International MASST Initiative WorkshopAbstract Models of Human-AI Teams (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in EducationBeyond Final Answers: Evaluating Large Language Models for Math Tutoring (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsCORGI: Efficient Pattern Matching With Quadratic Guarantees (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyDecomposed Inductive Procedure Learning: Learning Academic Tasks with Human-Like Data Efficiency (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Deep Taxonomic Networks for Unsupervised Hierarchical Prototype Discovery (opens in a new tab)
- Poster Collection of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsDeliberate Planning in Language Models with Symbolic Representation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. 🏆 Best Paper AwardDice Adventure: An Asymmetrical Collaborative Game for Exploring the Hybrid Teaming Effects (opens in a new tab)
- Cognitive Systems ResearchEfficient and Scalable Masked Word Prediction Using Concept Formation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsExplaining Robustness to Catastrophic Forgetting Through Incremental Concept Formation (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in EducationGenerating in-context, personalized feedback for intelligent tutors with large language models (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsHierarchical Semantic Retrieval with Cobweb (opens in a new tab)
202411 papers
- Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive SystemsAvoiding Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Classification Using Human Concept Formation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science SocietyCobweb: An Incremental and Hierarchical Model of Human-Like Category Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ ScaleHTN-Based Tutors: A New Intelligent Tutoring Framework Based on Hierarchical Task Networks (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)Improving Interface Design in Interactive Task Learning for Hierarchical Tasks based on a Qualitative Study (opens in a new tab)
- ISBIInterpretable Models for Detecting and Monitoring Elevated Intracranial Pressure (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Agent InteractionScaffolded versus Self-Paced Training for Human-Agent Teams (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the XAI Workshop @ IJCAIThe Impact of an XAI-Augmented Approach on Binary Classification with Scarce Data (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ ScaleTowards Educator-Driven Tutor Authoring: Generative AI Approaches for Creating Intelligent Tutor Interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)VAL: Interactive Task Learning with GPT Dialog Parsing (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual InterfacesVisualizing Intelligent Tutor Interactions for Responsive Pedagogy (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on the Foundations of Digital GamesWorking with My TeammAItes: Exploring Human-AI Teaming Dynamics through Gaming Environments (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- Advances in Cognitive SystemsEvaluating Alternative Training Interventions Using Personalized Computational Models of Learning (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)MobilePTX: Sparse Coding for Pneumothorax Detection Given Limited Training Examples (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of The First Workshop on Human-AI Interaction through Play @ FDGSpeculative Game Design of Asymmetric Cooperative Games to Study Human-Machine Teaming (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital EntertainmentUnderstanding Human-AI Teaming Dynamics through Gaming Environments (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went30 listed
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