The latest from VIABLE Lab — research milestones, publications, conferences, and team achievements.
Students do not always keep classroom chatbots on script. VETTING checks AI answers before students see them, with evidence from 151 middle school users and a Python implementation to try.
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TeamYeji Son joins the VIABLE Lab as an incoming Ph.D. student, bringing research interests in generative AI, collaborative learning, team dynamics, and human-AI interaction.
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VIABLE Lab brought five AIED main-track papers and an EDM poster to Seoul for Festival of Learning 2026, sharing new research, reconnecting with collaborators, and celebrating milestones together.
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VIABLE Lab presented five ICLS and CSCL papers at ISLS 2026 in Irvine, spanning collaborative learning, multimodal analytics, creativity assessment, and learner agency, with an Outstanding Student Paper Award.
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VIABLE Lab presented at LAK26 in Bergen, Norway, sharing research on replay behavior in math learning and the assessment of teacher AI literacy.
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VIABLE Lab highlighted the CHECKPOINT platform across featured sessions at National AI Literacy Day @ UF on March 26-27, 2026, and received the Innovation in Design Award.
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TeamHongming (Chip) Li successfully passed his Ph.D. qualifying examination on March 13, 2026, advancing to Ph.D. candidacy in Educational Technology at the University of Florida.
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TeamSeiyon M. Lee successfully passed her Ph.D. qualifying examination on March 13, 2026, advancing to Ph.D. candidacy in Educational Technology at the University of Florida.
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TeamShan Zhang successfully defended her qualifying examination on October 31, 2025, advancing to Ph.D. candidacy in Educational Technology with a minor in Research, Evaluation, and Methodology at the University of Florida.
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VIABLE Lab presented research at AECT 2025 in Las Vegas, exploring human-centered AI in education through tools for instructional design, critical thinking, and student engagement.
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VIABLE Lab team presents research across three co-located conferences in Palermo, Sicily, with multiple publications, workshop leadership, and a Best Paper nomination for ProductiveMath platform.
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AwardCHECKPOINT, a misconception-focused assessment item generation tool developed by VIABLE Lab, wins the Catalyst Prize in the Tools Competition, lead by Dr. Anthony Botelho
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PresentationChip Li and Dr. Anthony Botelho presented research on LLM-generated data augmentation for MOOC forum urgency prediction at the ISLS Annual Meeting 2025, participated virtually from the lab.
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Two promising PhD students, Zhongtian Huang and Natalia S. Martín, will join the VIABLE Lab in Fall 2025, under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Botelho, bringing expertise in AI, language acquisition, and educational data mining.
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VIABLE Lab members Shan Zhang and Chip Li presented their research at the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Philadelphia, with presentations at iRAISE Workshop and EAAI Symposium.
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Dr. Rahimi, Dr. Anthony Botelho, and Dr. Closser secure $451,563 Gates Foundation grant to develop AI-powered productive failure learning platform.
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Lab member Shan Zhang presented our latest research at the 32nd International Conference on Computers in Education in Manila, Philippines, with her paper being nominated for the Best Overall Paper Award.
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OpportunityVIABLE Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students working with Dr. Anthony Botelho for Fall 2025 in Educational Technology at University of Florida.
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Lab member Chip Li presented a systematic review on AI chatbots in education at AECT 2024, while discovering Kansas City's famous BBQ.
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Our lab members (Dr. Anthony Botelho, Chip Li, Seiyon Lee, Shan Zhang, and Irene Kao) presented multiple papers and posters at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2024) and Learning at Scale (L@S 2024) in Atlanta.
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Lab member Chip Li presented research on LLM-based student risk detection and learning analytics at CSCL 2024.
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GrantDr. Anthony Botelho and Chip Li secure OpenAI Researcher Access Program grant to advance research in educational AI applications.
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Three outstanding PhD students Seiyon Lee, Chip Li, and Shan Zhang join our research team, under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Botelho, bringing diverse expertise and perspectives.
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