Scholar
Andrew S. Lan
Google Scholar ID: ZYc-LuMAAAAJ
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,621
H-index
30
i10-index
68
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- July 2024: Team won the 2024 Learning Engineering Tools Competition
- July 2024: Student Alex won Best Student Paper Award at AIED 2024
- April 2024: Awarded a $90M NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (MSRI-2) grant for SafeInsights—the first MSRI-2 project for the NSF EDU Directorate
- November 2023: Selected as the LLM Methodology Hub in the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI) Program, supported by Schmidt Futures
- September 2023: Grand prize winner in the NAEP Math Automated Scoring Challenge
Background
- Associate Professor at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Research focuses on AI, especially NLP, for scalable and effective personalized learning in education
- Research areas include learner modeling, personalization, content generation, and human-in-the-loop AI
- Vision: build ML systems enabling every learner to access high-quality, affordable, and personalized education
- Also interested in convex/nonconvex optimization, Bayesian inference, deep learning, and the future of work
- Co-organized a series of workshops on machine learning for education (ml4ed)