Intelligent Support for Computer Science Education: Pedagogy Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Support for Computer Science Education presents the authors' research journey into the effectiveness of human tutoring, with the goal of developing educational technology that can be used to improve introductory Computer Science education at the undergraduate level.

Barbara Di Eugenio is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA. There she leads the NLP laboratory (https: //nlp.lab.uic.edu). Dr. Di Eugenio holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1993); she joined UIC in 1999. Her interests focus on the theory and practice of Natural Language Processing, with applications to educational technology, health care, human robot interaction, and social media. Dr. Di Eugenio is an NSF CAREER awardee (2002), and a UIC University Scholar (2018-21). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Insti- tute of Health, the Office of Naval Research, Motorola, Yahoo!, Politecnico di Torino, and the Qatar Research Foundation. She has graduated 12 PhD students and 30 Master's students, and published more than one hundred refereed publications.

Davide Fossati is currently a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2016, Dr. Fossati held positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2009-2010) and Carnegie Mellon University (2010-2015). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009. He also holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Po-
litecnico di Milano, Italy (2004), and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2003). Dr. Fossati's primary scholarly focus is Technology Enhanced Learning, with particular interest in the development of Artificial Intelligence systems to support Computer Science education.

Nick Green is a technology professional with 20 years of research and development experience in academia and industry. Dr. Green received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2017, where he focused on educational technology, natural language processing, and software engineering. Outside of academia, he has worked for companies such as Sony Interactive Entertainment and Facebook. He has a passion for the startup scene where he is also a serial entrepreneur having founded companies in fields such as security and precision agriculture.

Barbara Di Eugenio是美國伊利諾伊大學芝加哥分校（UIC）計算機科學系的教授。她領導著自然語言處理實驗室（https://nlp.lab.uic.edu）。Di Eugenio博士於1993年獲得賓夕法尼亞大學的計算機科學博士學位，並於1999年加入UIC。她的研究興趣集中在自然語言處理的理論和實踐，並應用於教育技術、醫療保健、人機交互和社交媒體等領域。Di Eugenio博士是NSF CAREER獲獎者（2002年）和UIC大學學者（2018-21年）。她的研究得到了美國國家科學基金會、美國國家衛生研究院、美國海軍研究局、摩托羅拉、雅虎、都靈理工大學和卡塔爾研究基金會的支持。她指導了12名博士生和30名碩士生，並發表了一百多篇經過同行評審的論文。

Davide Fossati目前是美國亞特蘭大埃默里大學計算機科學系的高級講師。在2016年加入埃默里大學之前，Fossati博士曾在喬治亞理工學院（2009-2010年）和卡內基梅隆大學（2010-2015年）擔任職位。他於2009年獲得伊利諾伊大學芝加哥分校的計算機科學博士學位。他還擁有意大利米蘭理工大學（2004年）的計算機工程碩士學位和伊利諾伊大學芝加哥分校（2003年）的計算機科學碩士學位。Fossati博士的主要學術研究方向是技術增強學習，尤其關注開發人工智能系統以支持計算機科學教育。

Nick Green是一位在學術界和工業界擁有20年研究和開發經驗的技術專業人士。Green博士於2017年獲得伊利諾伊大學芝加哥分校的計算機科學博士學位，他的研究重點是教育技術、自然語言處理和軟件工程。在學術界之外，他曾在索尼互動娛樂和Facebook等公司工作。他對初創公司領域充滿熱情，也是一位連續創業家，創辦了涉及安全和精準農業等領域的公司。