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Englighten Dashboard
#Dashboard Design and Development, #Mining large datasets
#UX research and design,#Addressing K-12 administrators’ need
Enlighten Dashboard empower administrators to compare students’ performance to their demographically similar peers, and connect with like-context schools.
Teachable Robots - how students learn from teaching the robots (Coming Soon)
#Human-Robot Interaction, #Teachable Robot
#Learning by teaching, #Educational Technology
I am currently looking at how children perceive and interact with humanoid robots. One primary goal is studying how children can benefit educationally and achieve learning gains from teaching the robots. 
Learning Pathways- Educational Data Analysis and Visualization
#Data Visualization (Tableau and D3), #Educational Data mining, #Learning Analytics
This is a educational data visualization project, in which we explored different factors’ contribution to their final learning outcome, and visualized students’ learning pathways in order to give educators evidence-based suggestions.
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portfolio
Teacher-guided Crowdsourcing
#Expert-facilitated Crowdsourcing, #Teachersourcing
#Teacher customization,#Social Computing, #Computer-supported Cooperative Work
With the goal of increasing teachers’ satisfaction and sustaining the relevance of materials in intelligent tutoring system, without imposing too much time on the busy teachers, in this recent research, I studied how teachers might guide the crowd to perform improvement on existing instructional materials (on-demand hints) in a math intelligent tutoring system.
Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback
#Feedback Automation
#K-12 Writing Education
In this research, we partner with Turnitin, Inc., to automate the structural feedback for student essays, specifically for the genre of argumentative writing. This research is funded by NSF and Schimdt Family Foundation.
Educational Game for Early Literacy -Sprinkle
# Independent Game Development, # Natural Language Processing,
# Speech Recognition, # Python Programming
This is an educational game I developed, aiming at improving kids’ early literacy, with gamified activities including pronouncing words and sorting sentences.
Intelligent Tutoring System for Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory
#Intelligent Tutoring System Development, #Rhetorical Structure Theory
This is a intelligent tutoring system I built, targeting at teaching Rhetorical Structural Theory, a linguistics framework frequently used in information retrieval.
Cooperative Learning Tool: Learn with your peer!
#Learning Experience Design, #Instructional Design,
#Cooperative Learning, #Peer Learning
This is a platform where you can learn with your peers in a Jigsaw method.
Intelligent Tutoring System in STEM Area
#Intelligent Tutoring Systems Development, #STEM Education, #Front-end programming
Here are some intelligent tutoring systems that I built in STEM area, under the help of Dr. Aleven and Jonathan in Carnegie Mellon University.
Language Transfer of Mandarin on English Phonetics Learning
#Language Transfer, #Second Language Learning
#Phonetics and Phonology, #Techonology for K-12 Education
My bachelor’s thesis focus on language transfer, especially negative transfer of Mandarin on English phonetics aquisition. I conducted acoustic experiment on 39 7th-grade students and analyzed the spectrogram using the software Praat. I studied it on both segmental and suprasegmental phoneme levels how students’ pronunciation of mandarin and Min dialect might affect their English pronunciation, in aspects of vowels, consonants and intonation and pitch. 
Lesson Design for Argumentative Writing Course
#Instructional Design, #Teaching English Writing
#K-12 Education
This is a four-week course design made for Grade 11-12 students, in topic of Argumentative Writing.
publications
Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback
Published in NAACL DISRPT workshop, 2019
Recommended citation: Shiyan Jiang, Kexin Yang, Chandrakumari Suvarna, Pooja Casula, Mingtong Zhang, Carolyn Penstein Rose. (2019). "Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback." NAACL-DISRPT workshop.
talks
Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback
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At NAACL-HLT 2019, I presented our work “Applying RST for Automated Structural Feedback for Student Essays” at DISRPT workshop.
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Excerpt
We present a package of annotation resources, including annotation guideline, flowchart, and an Intelligent Tutoring System for training human annotators. These resources can be used to apply Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to essays written by students in K-12 schools. Furthermore, we highlight the great potential of using RST to provide automated feedback for improving writing quality across genres.
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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