AI for STEM Education Center

The AI4STEM Education Center is an interdisciplinary hub hosting scholars from disciplines of STEM, education, computer science and artificial intelligence (AI), engineering, and data science. The Center aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, specifically focusing on using AI to advance STEM education.

The Center will conduct the following activities:

Host seminars for faculty members and graduate students on relevant topics to foster interdisciplinary collaborations.
Invite guest speakers to present cutting-edge research.
Organize workshops to advance the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge.
Announce opportunities, events, and achievements.
Support interdisciplinary external grant development.
Provide outreach to K-12 schools, teachers, and students.

Projects

PASTAThis project studies the utility of a machine learning-based assessment system for supporting middle school science teachers in making instructional decisions.

AI ConferenceThis conference, funded by the National Science Foundation, will tackle the challenges of AI-based assessments in STEM education.

AI BiasThis project conducts a critical examination of scoring bias of machine learning algorithms on scoring students from underrepresented groups in STEM.

siSTEMassiSTEMas aspires to increase interest and engagement in STEM careers by opening access to STEM for all people by making a strategic effort to include underrepresented groups.

ArguLexThis research project addresses measuring argumentation learning progression using machine learning to automate the scoring of student written work.

PISA BiasExamining AI Scoring Bias in PISA Tests of Both Germany and the US: Does Non-Native Background Matter?

Advancing AI in Science Education (AASE)This project is anchored in a comprehensive, multi-pronged strategy designed to delve deep into the multifaceted dimensions of AI’s role in science education.

Featured News

International Conference of AI-based Assessment in STEM held at UGABy Anika Chaturvedi - June 15, 2022

UGA establishes School of ComputingBy Sam Fahmy - June 13, 2022

Faculty members participate in interdisciplinary research pre-seed programBy Anika Chaturvedi - February 7, 2022

AI4STEM News

June 14, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave an invited talk to faculty of education at Gambaga College of Education, University for Development Studies, Ghana, titled “Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Education.”
June 8, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave a talk to Shanghai International Studies University, China, on applying AI to automatically assess students’ argumentation.
June 2, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave a talk to Shanghai International Studies University, China, on artificial intelligence for automatic scoring.
May 16, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave a talk on AI for science assessment: opportunities and challenges, hosted by College of Education, Peking University (online), China.
May 2, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave a presentation at the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education Research Conference titled “Applying Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Next Generation Science Learning.”
April 28, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave a presentation at Clarke County School District on the topic of supporting instructional decision making: The Potential of An Automatically Scored Three-dimensional Assessment System (PASTA).
Mar. 26, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai was invited as a panelist and gave a talk titled “Enhancing the Teaching and Learning Process with Artificial Intelligence” at the University of Georgia Teaching Academy’s Academic Affairs Faculty Symposium.
Mar. 15, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai attended the NLP Brown Bag Virtual Lecture Series and gave a talk titled “Artificial Intelligence-based Next Generation Science Assessment,” hosted by TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College.
Mar. 11, 2023: Xiaoming Zhai gave a talk to Instructum Consultancy Corp., Philippines titled “Education in an Era of AI-powered Chatbots.”
Dec. 12, 2022: Xiaoming Zhai gave an invited talk at North Carolina State University titled “AI-based Assessment for Next Generation Science Learning.”

Our Team

Xiaoming Zhai, director

Associate professor, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education, and affiliated assistant professor, Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Tianming Liu, co-director

Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science, School of Computing

Wenzhan Song, co-director

Georgia Power Mickey A. Brown Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering

Logan Fiorella

Associate professor, Department of Educational Psychology

Yizhu Gao

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education

Shuchen Guo

Postdoctoral research associate

Georgia Hodges

Associate research scientist, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education

Jennifer Kleiman

Graduate research assistant

Ehsan Latif

Postdoctoral research associate

Gyeong-Geon Lee

Postdoctoral research associate

Ninghao Liu

Assistant professor, School of Computing

Guoyu Lu

Assistant professor, College of Engineering

Matthew Madison

Assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology

Richard Morrison

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Lothar Tresp Honors Professor, and director for organic chemistry instruction, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Matthew Nyaaba

Graduate research assistant

Ramviyas Parasuraman

Assistant professor, School of Computing, and faculty member, Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Padmaja Saraf

Graduate Research Assistant

Haijian Sun

Assistant professor, College of Engineering

Shiyu Wang

Associate professor, Department of Educational Psychology

Ailing Zhang

Administrative Specialist

Alumni

Anagha Narasimha Joshi

PhD student in science education, Former Research Assistant.

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Contact Info

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