Biography
Dr. Min Chi is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University. She joined the department in 2013 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in the Digital Transformation of Education. Dr. Chi earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in the Intelligent System Program from the University of Pittsburgh, and B.E. in the Information Science and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and Human Sciences and the Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. She received 10 Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Outstanding Paper Awards, a prestigious Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, and an NSF CAREER Award. Her specialty is in the development and empirical evaluation of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning frameworks tailored for addressing human-centric challenges across diverse domains. Her expertise extends to real-world settings such as education, healthcare, nuclear power, and humanitarian efforts, including food banks and disaster relief.
Research Areas
- Advanced Learning Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents
- Data Sciences and Analytics
- Graphics, Human Computer Interaction, & User Experience
Education
- Ph.D. 2009 University of Pittsburgh Intelligent Systems
- M.S. 2006 University of Pittsburgh Intelligent Systems
- B.E. 1999 Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Information Science and Technology
CSC Fall Courses
- CSC 522-001 LEC Auto Lrn Data Anly MW 10:15am-11:30am Room: 2124 Engineering Building 3
- CSC 522-601 LEC Auto Lrn Data Anly Room: Distance Education - Online
Awards
- Best Paper Award, the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2021)
- Best Paper Award 7th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019)
- Best Paper Award 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2019)
- Best Student Paper Award 12th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2019)
- Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award - 2018
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation - 2017
- Outstanding Paper Award, 24th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP) - 2016
- Best Paper Award, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXIX (DBSec) - 2015
- Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) - 2010
- James Chen Best Student Paper Award, 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) - 2010
- Best Student Paper Award, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) - 2008
- Best Poster Award, 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) - 2008
Publications
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