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Deepak Varuvel Dennison

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Hello :)

I am Deepak, a PhD Student at Cornell University advised by Rene Kizilcec and Aditya Vashistha. I am interested in developing and evaluating culturally-aware AI technologies. My current research focuses on evaluating the cultural alignment of Large Language Models. More broadly, I am interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, Responsible AI, and Learning Sciences.

Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant at Stanford with Dora Demszky and Victor Lee, researching the educational applications of emerging AI technologies.

Oh also, check out Tales For Tweens,an Inclusive and Progressive Storybook that I have created for Young Indians. Please consider sharing it with kids, parents, and educators! :)

Deepak Varuvel Dennison

Publications

From Consumers to Critical Users: Prompty, an AI Literacy Tool For High School Students

Deepak Varuvel Dennison,* Raycelle C. C. Garcia,* Parth Sarin, Jacob Wolf, Christine Bywater, Benjamin Xie and Victor R.Lee

AAAI-24: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Co-designing AI Education Curriculum with Cross-Disciplinary High School Teachers

Benjamin Xie, Parth Sarin,* Jacob Wolf,* Raycelle C. C. Garcia, Victoria Delaney, Isabel Sieh, Anika Fuloria, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Christine Bywater, Victor R. Lee

AAAI-24: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Evaluating LLMs’ Generation of Growth-Mindset Supportive Teacher Language

Margarett Clapper, Cameron Hecht, Michaela Jones, Nirel Jonesmitchell, Meghann Johnson, Deepak Dennison, Dorrotya Demszky and David Yeager

AIED2023 Workshop: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Educational Technology Research and Development

Selected Projects

M-Powering Teacher: A Machine Learning Tool for Instructional Measurement and Feedback

Stanford University

Through this project, our team has developed a machine learning tool to analyze diverse facets of a teacher's instruction, delivering a holistic report on classroom interaction. My responsibility was to design and develop intuitive data dashboards that effectively communicate the insights gleaned from these interactions. Collaborating closely with teachers and educational researchers, I identified specific feedback needs aimed at elevating classroom practices. This entails designing interfaces that distill complex data into actionable insights, facilitating informed decision-making for teachers and teaching coaches.... More

Code In Place: A free, human-centered, intro-to-coding course from Stanford University

Stanford University

I worked closely with Professors Dora Demszky and Chris Piech to build the AI-Feedback feature for Code In Place, a large-scale human-centered coding course offered by Stanford, to provide automated feedback to section leaders and students leading to improvement in learning outcomes.... More

CRAFT: Empowering students with AI Literacy

Stanford University

Through CRAFT, I researched and developed a learning tool that could help students utilize Large Language Models in a critical way and effective way in their writing processes. The tool was developed through a co-design process with students and teachers. While the co-design process offered insights into the unique needs of the students and teachers, the learning sciences literature helped in shaping the tool for pedagogical effectiveness.... More

Elalytics: Integrating literary and data literacy

Stanford University

The ELAlytics project explores ways to combine English Language Arts (ELA) literacy and data literacy in the classroom. Through the project, we helped teachers use data visualizations (like bar graphs and word clouds) to represent texts (like novels and short stories) to create new pathways for students to think about and enjoy both texts and data. I worked as a software developer responsible for creating interactive data visualizations and maintaining the text analytics pipelines in Python.... More

Check out my notebook for stuff that I enjoy doing outside work :)

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