Recent News
September 2018: Multiple postdoctoral research positions are available in our group at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, under the guidance of Dr. Vincent Aleven: kenholstein.com/postdocs
August 2018: Had an amazing summer at Microsoft Research, working with the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI group (FATE)!
July 2018: Honored to receive Best Paper at AIED 2018 (1 of 2 awards) and Best Student Paper at ICLS 2018! And congrats to my dear friend Michael Madaio for winning Best Paper at ICLS 2018! [details]
June 2018: Presented three full papers and a symposium at AIED 2018 and ICLS 2018, all part of my ongoing PhD work on teacher-AI hybrid systems.
March 2018: Presented two full papers and a poster at LAK 2018, related to our work on Lumilo and the design of dashboards for AI-enhanced classrooms. Also participated in the LAK Doctoral Consortium (DC)! Special thanks to McGraw Hill for their generous DC travel support!
February 2018: Had a great time presenting and demo-ing our work on Lumilo at SIGCSE 2018, alongside Franceska Xhakaj, Bruce McLaren, and the Microsoft HoloLens and MakeCode teams!
Travel
2019
May 1 - 10: Glasgow, Scotland, UK (CHI 2019)
January 28 - 31: Atlanta, GA (FAT* 2019)
2018
December 24 - 26: Washington, DC
November 16 - 18: Worcester, Massachusetts (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
June 21 - July 1: London, UK (ICLS 2018, L@S 2018, & AIED 2018)
May 21 - August 26: New York, NY (Microsoft Research)
May 5 - 6: Washington, DC
March 3 - 16: Sydney, NSW, Australia (LAK 2018)
February 20 - 24: Baltimore, MD (SIGCSE 2018)
2017
December 19 - 31: Washington, DC
December 4-6: Philadelphia, PA (Reimagine Education 2017)
March 11-18: Vancouver, BC, Canada (LAK 2017)
2016
December 26 - January 3: Florence, Italy
December 21 - 25: Washington, DC
September 10 - 16: Lyon, France (EC-TEL 2016)
August 27 - 28: Toronto, Canada
2015
December 20 - 26: Washington, DC
June 24 - 30: Madrid, Spain (EDM 2015)