As a Senior Cognitive Scientist, I focus on three interrelated areas. The first area continues to be on content development. I help manage the development schedule and ensure that content is delivered on time and within budget. I support the prioritization of content development based on customer needs, market opportunities, and impact on learning outcomes. The second area is providing sales and marketing with support by giving talks, webinars, and conference presentations that highlight our… Show more As a Senior Cognitive Scientist, I focus on three interrelated areas. The first area continues to be on content development. I help manage the development schedule and ensure that content is delivered on time and within budget. I support the prioritization of content development based on customer needs, market opportunities, and impact on learning outcomes. The second area is providing sales and marketing with support by giving talks, webinars, and conference presentations that highlight our thought leadership in the space of Cognitive Science and its intersection with educational technology. The third area is a focus on the future. I work closely with the Senior Director of Content Design to better understand where the field is moving and to design solutions that help address our customers’ biggest challenges. Show less

Due to a major shift in business priorities, I was brought back to the Cognitive Science Team to continue designing, implementing, and testing cognitive models for Carnegie Learning’s mathematics curriculum. In addition to the responsibilities for which I was originally hired, I joined the Product Management Team. My unique contribution was to apply principles from Cognitive Science to ensure that the design of new products and features were optimized for both learning and motivation. In this… Show more Due to a major shift in business priorities, I was brought back to the Cognitive Science Team to continue designing, implementing, and testing cognitive models for Carnegie Learning’s mathematics curriculum. In addition to the responsibilities for which I was originally hired, I joined the Product Management Team. My unique contribution was to apply principles from Cognitive Science to ensure that the design of new products and features were optimized for both learning and motivation. In this role, I continued to conduct usability research, which included survey research, user-experience testing, and semi-structured interviews. Show less

In this role, I was responsible for closely collaborating with master practitioners, subject-matter experts, technologists, and cognitive scientists to design a next-generation learning tool that combined the strengths of an artificially intelligent tutoring system with the award-winning content of Carnegie Learning’s middle- and high-school textbooks. I met with teachers to better understand the unique requirements of using this type of system in the classroom. I also conducted user-testing… Show more In this role, I was responsible for closely collaborating with master practitioners, subject-matter experts, technologists, and cognitive scientists to design a next-generation learning tool that combined the strengths of an artificially intelligent tutoring system with the award-winning content of Carnegie Learning’s middle- and high-school textbooks. I met with teachers to better understand the unique requirements of using this type of system in the classroom. I also conducted user-testing with both teachers and students. Finally, I was responsible for giving product demos to customers and third-party vendors. Show less

As a Cognitive Scientist, I worked with the curriculum development team to implement and refine software tools and tutoring models that provide students with an engaging educational experience. This included translating curricular needs into product requirements, researching existing approaches, designing educational interactions, and developing active cognitive and tutoring models using a combination of off-the-shelf and in-house development tools.

For the position of "Postdoctoral Associate", I had the following responsibilities:* Design and conduct rigorous educational experiments that are tightly controlled and conducted in authentic learning environments (i.e., an in vivo experiment).* Report findings of experiments at national and international conferences.* Mentor graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of psychology and computer science.* Organize a graduate student and post-doctoral conference on the… Show more For the position of "Postdoctoral Associate", I had the following responsibilities:* Design and conduct rigorous educational experiments that are tightly controlled and conducted in authentic learning environments (i.e., an in vivo experiment).* Report findings of experiments at national and international conferences.* Mentor graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of psychology and computer science.* Organize a graduate student and post-doctoral conference on the science of learning (iSLC 2005).* Teach a week-long summer institute on conducting in vivo experiments.* Review grant proposals for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC). Show less

For the position of "Graduate Student Researcher", I had the following responsibilities:* Design experiments that test interesting hypotheses about collaborative learning.* Collect data from human participants that adhere to the standards and principles outlined by the Human Review Board.* Analyze and search for statistical trends in large datasets.* Report findings to a scientific audience at national and international conferences, as well as publish the results in… Show more For the position of "Graduate Student Researcher", I had the following responsibilities:* Design experiments that test interesting hypotheses about collaborative learning.* Collect data from human participants that adhere to the standards and principles outlined by the Human Review Board.* Analyze and search for statistical trends in large datasets.* Report findings to a scientific audience at national and international conferences, as well as publish the results in peer-reviewed journals.* Produce high-quality learning experiences for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. Show less