• About Us
• News & Events
  • Colloquia
  • Newsletter
  • Annual Reports (WPI Only)
• Undergraduate Programs
• Graduate Programs
• People
• Research & Facilities
• Resources & Organizations
• About WPI
• Search
• CS Home

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Computer Science Department is very pleased to announce that Dr. Neil Heffernan, recently hired as a new faculty member, has won a prestigious award:

Neil Heffernan has been selected as a 2002-2003 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow for his project, "A Comparison of Student Learning Under Multiple Conditions: Classroom instruction, one-on-one human tutoring, and different types of computer tutoring." An award of $50K accompanies this honor, "to assist early career scholars to fund salary replacement and research expenses for time for their research during the fellowship period." And the statistics this year? Only 29 fellows were selected from a "competitive pool of more than 200 scholars of education at the postdoctoral level." In its 17th year of existence, the Fellowship Program's alumni are considered "many of the strongest education researchers in the field today."

Text from CMU's School of Computer Science News Weekly

Neil obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and then took a "post-doc" position at CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. He starts at WPI in June 2002. His research involves using artificial intelligence and cognitive science to design software for helping students learn math better.