Chi receives NSF CAREER award

Dr. Min Chi, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, known as the NSF CAREER Award, is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young faculty in science and engineering.

NSF will provide $547,810 in funding over five years to support her project, “Improving Adaptive Decision Making in Interactive Learning Environments.” This research is supported by NSF’s Cyber-Human Systems and Robust Intelligence programs in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems.

Chi’s project aims to improve decision-making skills of students in interactive learning environments (ILEs) to better prepare them for long-term problem-solving. Using advanced machine-learning techniques, she will analyze data to develop an integrated research and education program with the goal of preparing students to make efficient, independent decisions in situations for which they do not instantly know how to act.
Improving ILEs will enable students in STEM domains to make erudite decisions and enhance teachers’ and domain experts’ understanding of the process of these decisions from the system.

Chi’s current research interests include advanced learning technologies, artificial intelligence and intelligence agents, data sciences and analytics as well as graphics, human computer interaction and user experience.

Chi received a B.E. in information science and technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (1999), and both an M.S. (2006) and Ph.D. (2009) in intelligent systems from University of Pittsburgh.

– keller –