Carrie Demmans Epp
After finishing my Ph.D, I started a post-doctoral position at the Learning Research and Development Center, at the University of Pittsburgh. The focus of my post-doctoral research was research and development for the SWoRD Peer-Review writing support system. We developed a revision planning intervention which allowed students to collect the feedback they were receiving and make concrete decisions about how to incorporate the feedback into their drafts. As with my graduate work, I developed softwware, parti
I am currently a Principal Data Scientist at Pearson. The focus of my work has been on nlp techniques for writing and language instruction. I lead a multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, data scientists, and UX designers to develop protoypes and capabilities which can be used in Pearson products to enable novel learning experiences.
An essay scoring prototype which collaborates with an instructor to build an essay scoring model over the course of a semester using online active learning. Contributions include an active learning algorithm for suggesting the order in which the instructor should grade the essays and a UX framework for communicating online learning flow and status to a non-ML fluent user.
Carrie Demmans Epp