William Rebelsky
William came to Grinnell in 2024 and is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
William’s primary research focuses on improvements to Intelligent Tutoring Systems, or AI driven tools to provide personalized practice and assistance to students who are studying middle school math. The goal of this research is to expand access to personalized learning tools to help students improve their understanding of, and confidence in solving, math problems.
Education and Degrees
BA (Honors) Grinnell College: 2017
- Majors: Chemistry, Economics, Mathematics
- Concentration: Statistics
MS University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2022
- Computer Science with a concentration in Data Science
Selected Publications
Yu, H., Allessio, D., Rebelsky, W., Murray, T., Magee, J., Arroyo, I., Woolf, B. P., Bargal, S., and Betke, M. Affect Behavior Prediction: Using Transformers and Timing Information to Make Early Predictions of Student Exercise Outcomes. AIED2024.
Yu, H., Allessio, D., Lee, W., Rebelsky, W., Sylvia, F., Murray, T., Magee, J., Arroyo, I., Woolf, B. P., Bargal, S., and Betke, M. COVES: A Cognitive-Affective Deep Model that Personalizes Math Problem Difficulty in Real Time and Improves Student Engagement with an Online Tutor. ACMMM 2023
Woolf, B. P., Betke, M., Yu, H., Bargal, S. A., Arroyo, I., Magee, J., Allessio, D., Rebelsky, W. FACE READERS: The Frontier of Computer Vision and Math Learning. AIED2023 Workshop.
Lee, W., Allessio, D., Rebelsky, W., Satish Gattupalli, S., Yu, H., Arroyo, I., Betke, M., Bargal, S., Murray, T., Sylvia, F. and Woolf, B.P., 2022. Measurements and Interventions to Improve Student Engagement Through Facial Expression Recognition. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 286-301). Springer, Cham.
Gupta, A., Menon, N., Lee, W., Rebelsky, W., Allesio, D., Murray, T., Woolf, B., Whitehill, J. and Arroyo, I. (2021, June). Affective Teacher Tools: Affective Class Report Card and Dashboard. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 178-189). Springer, Cham.
Rebelsky, W., & Hernandez-Soto, H. (2017, April). Theoretical study of the formation of CH3SO3H from the reaction of CH3SO2H and OH radical. In Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society (Vol. 235). 1155 16th St, NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA: Amer Chemical Soc