Department of Computer Science
Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Diane Litman
- 2025 Spring LRDC Graduate Student Council (GSC) Awardees Eight LRDC graduate students researchers (GSRs) received GSC awards during the spring semester of 2025: Zhexioing Liu, Jessica Macaluso, Angie Griffo, Yuya Asano, Jie Cao, Qianjin Guo, Rebecca McGre
Sharma, P., Fritsch, D., Asano, Y., King-Shepard, Q., Langley, T., Maidment, T., Litman, D., Nokes-Malach, T., Kovashka, A., Lobczowski, N., & Walker, E. (2025). Beyond static measures: Temporal analysis of lexical alignment in human-human learning with a teachable robot. Proceedings 26th International Conference on artiical Intelligence in Education (AIED), Palmero, Italy.
Asano, Y., Litman, D., King-Shepard, Q., Maidment, T., Langley, T., Davison, T., Nokes, T., Kovashka, A., & Walker, E. (2024). What metrics of participation balance predict outcomes of collaborative learning with a robot? Proceedings Educational Data Mining, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Yuya Asano is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Intelligent Systems at University of Pittsburgh, supervised by Professor Diane J. Litman. His research interest lies in the intersection of natural language processing (NLP), human-computer interaction (HCI), and educational technology. He works on the application of NLP, in particular dialogue systems and large language models (LLMs) in the domain of education to make distance learning more interactive and offer rich education to everyone regardless of their socioeconomic status.
