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Tanmay Sinha

2015.October.14:

Tanmay is a doctoral student in Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science. His research interests lie at the intersection of (i) learning science and design of personalized educational technologies that aim to foster competencies such as collaboration and character qualities such as curiosity in group work, (ii) artificial intelligence & machine learning approaches to develop such “socially-aware” technologies that can self-improve with the social interaction over time, (iii) frameworks from social network analysis to analyze underlying group dynamics & processes such as peer influence, which stem from the social interaction. Tanmay finished his Masters program at ArticuLab, working on assessing the impact of socio-cognitive factors in greasing the wheels of interpersonal interaction, building rapport and enhancing learning. His research has been a recipient of “Best Student Paper” award at IVA 2016,  and “Shared Task Winner” at EMNLP 2014. [http://tinyurl.com/TanmayCV]