Zach Pardos

Associate Professor of Education

Zachary Pardos is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley studying adaptive learning and AI. He has 17 years of research experience with intelligent tutoring systems and leads the Computational Approaches to Human Learning research lab, developing tools like OATutor and AskOski, a course recommendation and multi-institution student success initiative. His work designing Human-AI collaborations to pave pathways to and within systems of higher education has been published in venues such as SIGCHI, NeurIPS, Computers & Education, and Science. At Berkeley, he teaches in the data science undergraduate program and is an affiliated faculty member in Cognitive Science.

Ioannis Anastasopoulos

PhD Student in Education

Ioannis Anastasopoulos is a second-year doctoral student, studying learning sciences in the Berkeley School of Education. His interests lie in iterating the pedagogy and usability of digital learning environments to enhance student learning. Ioannis has been involved with OATutor since its inception, leading the content creation effort of the project for over four years, as well as working with teachers and instructors to ease integrations of the system into their classrooms.

Shreya Bhandari

Undergraduate Student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Shreya Bhandari is the lead research developer for the OATutor project. She has been working with the team since 2022, running experiments and continuously expanding OATutor’s capabilities by incorporating the latest advancements in LLMs. Her research interests include leveraging AI for practical educational impact, computer tutoring, reinforcement learning, and personalized learning.

Yunting Liu

PhD Student in Education

Yunting Liu is a second-year doctoral student in the Social Research Methodology (SRM) cluster at the UC Berkeley School of Education. Her research interests are centered around latent variables models, mixture models and psychrometric applications.