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Kurt VanLehn is a Professor in the School of Computing and Informatics at Arizona State University. He received a Ph. D. from MIT in 1983 in Computer Science, was a post-doc at BBN and Xerox PARC, joined the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1985, moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1990 and joined ASU in 2008. He founded and co-directed two large NSF research centers (Circle; the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center). He has published over 125 peer-reviewed publications, is a fellow in the Cognitive Science Society, and is on the editorial boards of Cognition and Instruction, and the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Dr. VanLehn's research focuses on applications of artificial intelligence to education and cognitive modeling. Some of his recent projects are: Andes, an intelligent tutoring system for a full year of college/high school physics that improves students grades by approximate a letter grade and is in daily use around the country; Why2-Atlas and Cordillera, two intelligent tutoring systems that pioneered the use of natural language dialogues for science teaching and have been shown to be just as effective as expert human tutors; Pyrenees, an intelligent tutoring system that successfully caused inter-domain transfer by implicitly teaching a meta-cognitive strategy; and Cascade, a highly accurate cognitive model of human students learning physics that accounts for the interaction of self-explanation and analogy.

Jon Wetzel is a research scientist at ASU who finished his PhD at Northwestern University in the summer of 2014. His PhD thesis was on CogSketch Design Coach, an AI coach for a first year undergraduate engineering course. His research interests include intelligent tutoring systems and the study of human learning.

Sachin Grover is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the fall of 2013. His master's thesis will include designing and implementing an embedded assesment system in Dragoon.

Ritesh Samala is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the summer of 2014.

Brett van de Sande obtainted his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1994. He went on to conduct post-doctoral research in Germany and then taught physics and math at Geneva College. Since 1995, he has been working on intelligent tutoring systems, first at the University of Pittsburgh and then at Arizona Statue University.

Avaneesh Desai is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the fall of 2014.

Tushar Jain is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the summer of 2015.

Mervyn Rohit Alexander is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the summer of 2015.

Reid is part of the full time staff in the Dragoon Project. He joined the project in the spring of 2013.

Pradeep Chaudhari is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the fall of 2013.

Megha Tiwari is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. She joined the Dragoon Project in the fall of 2013.

Vallabh Patade is a graduate student in the Computer Science program. He joined the Dragoon Project in the fall of 2014.

Jingxian Feng is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at Arizona State University. She is a fan of software programming, but not a nerd at all. Jingxian joined the Dragoon Project in the summer of 2014.

Ramayan Tiwari was a Graduate Student in the Computer Science program. He made significant contributions towards the first version of Dragoon and helped lay the foundation for future versions. He graduated in May 2013 and is now working at Salesforce.com in Core Cloud Infrastructure, specifically in Messaging Systems.

Deepak Bhosale was a Graduate Student in the Computer Science MS program. He graduated in May 2014.

Brandon Strong is an undergraduate student in the Computer Science program at Arizona State University. His interests include artificial intelligence, databases, and game development. For Brandon's capstone project, he led a team that created a game engine in a project that he proposed. He joined the Dragoon Project in the summer of 2013.

Mackenzie Kong-Sivert is a student at Bioscience High School and is joining the Dragoon Project as an intern for the 2014-2015 school year. Her interest in computer science developed from her interest in neuroscience; she is interested in learning about how computers can imitate some of the complex processes that are executed by the brain.

Haoxuan Wu is an undergraduate student in the Computer Science program at Cornell University. He is interested in database and computer security. He has joined the Dragoon Project for the summer of 2014.