Explore students' projects below.

Publications
Jordan, B., Devasia, N., Hong, J., Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2021, May). PoseBlocks: A toolkit for creating (and dancing) with AI. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 35, No. 17, pp. 15551-15559).

Lin, P., Van Brummelen, J., Lukin, G., Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2020, April). Zhorai: Designing a conversational agent for children to explore machine learning concepts. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 34, No. 09, pp. 13381-13388).

I worked with Profs. Cynthia Breazeal and Hal Abelson to build a special topics course on designing K-12 AI education, Democratizing AI Through K-12 AI Education for All. As the only teaching assistant for this newly developed course, my role was to maintain the class website and syllabus, propose ideas for assignments and lecturers, organize lectures and course content, interact with students during office hours, and give students feedback on their homework and projects as they completed them.

This weekly, project-based class explores the question of “how do we empower middle-school students to learn about AI in a collaborative, hands-on way?” Students taking this course work in teams to develop constructionist tools and activities to introduce K-8th grade learners to important concepts, practices and design principles of artificial intelligence – i.e., how machines think and learn and how to design them in an ethical way.