Shrenik Devasani

Intelligent Systems Laboratory Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto, CA 94304 dshrenik@gmail.com shrenikdevasani.com

EDUCATION Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction Co-major: Computer Science Iowa State University, Ames, IA Thesis: Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Tools for Non-Programmers Committee: Stephen Gilbert, Leslie Miller, Craig Ogilvie GPA: 3.66 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering S.B.M. Jain College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India RESEARCH INTERESTS Intelligent tutoring systems, learning sciences, authoring tools, cognitive modeling, mathematics education, situated tutors, just-in-time training, user-interface design, natural language processing, ethnography RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA September 2011 - Present Research Assistant & Software Developer, Intelligent Systems Laboratory - Working on Digital Nurse, a software assistant for nurses that helps reduce their cognitive load. - Built work-practice models of nurses in a healthcare organization from ethnographic data. - Developed intelligent decision-support tools, software agents and designed user-interfaces. Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA May August 2011 Research Intern, Intelligent Systems Laboratory - Developed an analytics-engine for Brahms, an agent-based modeling and simulation environment. - Analytics-engine helped visualize what-is and what-if scenarios and improve the accuracy of existing models. - Designed a model-independent language and architecture that enabled non-programmers to generate analytics directly from a simulation. Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA May 2010 - May 2011 Research Assistant - Designed and developed authoring tools for non-programmers in two complex domains, natural language processing and 3D game environments. - Conducted an empirical evaluation study of two authoring tool paradigms, text-based and GUI-based in two domains, statistics and geometry. Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA January - June 2010 Research Assistant - Designed and developed interactive educational material and computer simulations of experiments. PUBLICATIONS Blessing, S., Devasani, S., & Gilbert, S. B. (in review). Evaluating ConceptGrid: An Authoring System for Natural Language Responses. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International FLAIRS Conference, Marco Island. Devasani, S., Aist, G., Blessing, S., & Gilbert, S. B. (2011). Lattice-Based Approach to Building Templates for Natural Language Understanding in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland. Shrenik Devasani | Curriculum Vitae 1/2 December 2011

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Devasani, S., Gilbert, S. B., Shetty, S., Ramaswamy, N., & Blessing, S. (2011). Authoring Intelligent Tutoring Systems for 3D Game Environments. Presentation at the Authoring Simulation and Game-based Intelligent Tutoring Workshop at the Fifteenth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland. Blessing, S., Devasani, S., & Gilbert, S. B. (2011). Evaluation of WebxPST: A Browser-Based Authoring Tool for Problem-Specific Tutors. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Auckland. Gilbert, S. B., Devasani, S., Kodavali, S., & Blessing, S. (2011). Easy Authoring of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Synthetic Environments. Proceedings of the Twentieth Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Sundance. PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS Devasani, S., Jarvis, P. A., Maxwell, J. T., & Sierhuis, M. (2012). Business Analytics Engine for Brahms: An AgentBased Workflow and Simulation Environment. Devasani, S., Gilbert, S. B., & Blessing, S. (2012). Evaluation of Two Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Tool Paradigms: GUI-Based and Text-Based. Liu, D., Bier, E. A., Sierhuis, M., & Devasani, S. (2012). Agent-Based Modeling for Enrollment Practices in the Healthcare Sector. PROJECTS Virtual Environment Tutoring Engine March - May 2011 - Authoring tool framework that is intended to help non-programmers develop game-based intelligent tutoring systems. ConceptGrid August - December 2010 - Domain-independent authoring tool that helps non-programmers develop support for natural language processing within an existing tutor. - Helps provide customized just-in-time feedback to students' responses to open-ended questions. - Achieved an accuracy of over 0.87 while scoring student-responses. Web Authoring Tool May - June 2010 - Browser-based C# .NET application that allows users to develop, manage and deploy tutors on the Web. - Logs users actions and events for the purpose of data mining. - Successfully used by over 50 participants in research and evaluation studies. Video Analysis Tool for Tennis Matches - Generates vital match statistics from a video of a completed tennis match. - Ball tracking, event detection and gesture recognition done with OpenCV, a C++ library. March - April 2010

Hawk Eye May - June 2009 - Robot that navigates through one of several colored paths, avoiding obstacles through feedback from IR sensors. - Accepts input from a Nintendo Wiimote. Image processing done in OpenCV. SKILLS Methods: Prototyping, user studies, empirical evaluation studies, workflow modeling, ethnography Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, SQL Packages and Platforms: ASP.NET, MATLAB, Adobe Flash CS4, Natural Language Tool Kit, OpenCV

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