SPEAKER: Ashok Goel, Professor of Computer Science and Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech

Abstract: As AI becomes increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, it is disrupting skills and displacing workers. NSF’s National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE) posits that AI can be part of the solution to the growing problem if we can use AI for reskilling, upskilling, and workforce development at scale. The long-term vision of AI-ALOE is to develop and use AI technologies to enhance the proficiency of online education for all adult learners, using in-person education as a benchmark. The day-to-day mission of AI-ALOE is to conduct responsible research into AI that is grounded in theories of human cognition and learning and derived from the scientific process of learning engineering. I will describe ongoing research at AI-ALOE.

Bio: Ashok Goel is a Professor of Computer Science and Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Chief Scientist with Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. He is a Fellow of AAAI and the Cognitive Science Society, an Editor Emeritus of AAAI’s AI Magazine, and a recipient of AAAI’s Robert Engelmore Award, Outstanding AI Educator Award, Distinguished Service Award, and of multiple IBM Faculty Awards. Ashok is the PI and Executive Director of NSF’s National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (aialoe.org) headquartered at Georgia Tech. He is the Founder of Beyond Question AI, LLC.

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