Clayton Cohn

Clayton Cohn

Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Computer Science | Institute for Software Integrated Systems

Biography

Clayton Cohn joined the OELE lab as a Graduate Research Assistant in Summer 2021. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He completed both his BS in Computer Science with a concentration in Software Development and his MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence at DePaul University in Chicago, IL, USA. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) in intelligent tutoring environments and conversational agents.

Current Projects

• Smart Nursing Learning Environment (SNLE)
• C2STEM
• Automated evaluation of SPICE formative assessments (collaboration with DePaul University)

Publications:

• Using the DiCoT Framework for Integrated Multimodal Analysis in Mixed-Reality Training Environments (Frontiers in AI, 2022)
• Improving Automated Evaluation of Formative Assessments with Text Data Augmentation (AIED 2022)
• BERT Efficacy on Scientific and Medical Datasets: A Systematic Literature Review (Master’s Thesis, 2020)
• Identifying Causal Relations in Students’ Explanatory Essay with BERT (submitted to IJAIED, under review)