Ananya Ganesh

Ananya Ganesh recently earned her PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Ganesh’s research focuses on building language technology to support classroom learning, with the aim of supporting all stakeholders in the learning process including teachers, students, and qualitative researchers. Her dissertation work investigates how the structure and content of classroom dialog can be understood using natural language processing (NLP) models. She will work with IDS affiliate Shamya Karumbaiah on a project that will investigate the reliability of NLP models in diverse classrooms, particularly in supporting collaborative learning amongst students conversing in a variety of languages and dialects. In particular, they will explore how high quality multilingual datasets can be used to better measure collaborative problem solving ability.

Research Areas: Classroom dialog, Multilingual learners, Data-scarce settings for natural language processing