I am conducting research on several currently funded projects from a wide variety government and industrial funding sources, including NSF, NRL, and AFRL, Google, and the Gates Foundation. Here are some current and previous projects.

• Big Data/STEM+C: Study of a Cyber-enabled Social Computing Framework for Improving Practice in Online Computing Communities(NSF, PI Carolyn Rose)
• HCC: Medium: Personalized Information Access for Online Deliberation Systems(NSF, PI Jim Herbsleb)
• Learning in Massive Open Online Courses
  • Study of a Cyber-enabled Social Computing Framework for Improving Practice in Online Computing Communities(National Science Foundation, PI Carolyn Rose
  • Digital Learning Research Network (Gates Foundation, PI of CMU subcontract, Carolyn Rose)
  • Inspark: Next Generation Courseware (Gates Foundation, PI of CMU subcontract Carolyn Rose)
  • Google MOOC Project (funded by Google, PI Justine Cassell)
• Education at the middle school, high school, and college level
  • Investigating the Social and Communicative Factors in Learning (NSF)
  • Group Cognition: Learning in Engineering Project Teams (NSF)
  • Networked Collaboration Modules for Integrating Mathematics and Engineering Education Using Intelligent Agents (NSF)
  • Dynamic Support for Virtual Math Teams (NSF)
  • ENGAGE: Learning to solve problems, Solving problems to learn (DARPA)
• Emergency response
  • Towards Optimization of Macrocognitive Processes: Automating Analysis of the Emergence of Leadership in Ad Hoc Teams (ONR)
• Health and Wellbeing
  • Conversational Dynamics in Online Support Groups (NSF)
  • Extracting Social Meaning from Code Switching in English and French with Selected African Languages: Swahili, Zulu, Lingala, and Ciluba (ARL)

Tool Projects

• DANCE: Discussion Affordances for Natural Collaborative Exchange (partnership with edX)
• DiscourseDB: large scale data infrastructure for storage and modeling of discourse data
• LearnSpehere: Building a Scalable Infrastructure for Data-Driven Discovery and Innovation in Education (NSF, PI Kenneth Koedinger)
• Data Fusion in Networked Time Series Data (NRL, PI Carolyn Rose)
• Bazaar: Reconfigurable Multi-Party Dialogue Environment
• LightSIDE Text Mining Toolkit
• TagHelper Tools: Automating the Analysis of Conversational Data
• Tutalk: Infrastructure for authoring and experimenting with natural language dialogue in tutoring systems and learning research

Unfunded/Past Projects

• CycleTalk: Dialogue Technology for Supporting Simulation Based Learning
• Digital Bridges: On-Line Education fostering Partnerships for Research and Teaching