Paras Sharma

I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at the University of Pittsburgh working with Dr. Erin Walker in FACET Lab. My research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, and Multimodal Machine Learning particularly focusing on building educational technologies to help learners navigate through open-ended learning environments. I am interested in modeling learner behaviors during their multimodal interactions with educational systems and then utilizing these models to support varied learner dialogue interactions within the systems.