Professional Activities

Board Member

• Elected member of the International AI in Education Society Executive Committee (2022-2027).

• Associate Editor for IJAIED.

• Member of Editorial Board of the User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal.

• Associate Editor for AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change Journal (a specialty section of Frontiers in AI).

• Former associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Journal. Term completed in 2020.

Committee Member

• Program committee member for SLLL 2021: Workshop on Supporting Lifelong Learning.

• Program committee member for EDMGAMES19 (Workshop on EDM & Games: Leveling Up Engaged Learning with Data-Rich Analytics. Montréal, Canada.

• Program committee member for CHIRA19 (3rd International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, Vienna, Austria. CHIRA 2020.

• Program committee member for IEEE CIG 2018: Special Session on Intelligent Games for Learning. Maastricht. The Netherlands.

• Program committee member for ICLS 2018. Festival of Learning 2018. London, UK.

• Program committee member for the Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM 2016, EDM 2017, EDM 2018, EDM 2019, EDM 2020; EDM 2021. EDM 2022 EDM 2023 EDM 2024).

• Program committee member for the International Conference on Computers in Education. (ICCE 2008, ICCE 2009, ICCE 2010, ICCE 2011, ICCE 2012, ICCE 2013, ICCE 2014, ICCE 2015, ICCE 2016, 2017). AIED/ITS & Adaptive Learning Track.

• Program committee member for the International Conference on Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2011, CSEDU 2012, CSEDU 2013, CSEDU 2014, CSEDU 2015, CSEDU 2016, CSEDU 2017, CSEDU 2018, CSEDU 2020,  CSEDU 2021, CSEDU 2022).

• Program committee member for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2005, AIED 2009, AIED 2011, AIED 2013, AIED 2015, AIED 2017, AIED 2018 - Festival of Learning 2018, AIED 2019, AIED 2020, AIED 2022 AIED 2023 AIED 2024

• Program committee member for the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2010, ITS 2012, ITS 2014.

• Program committee member for the User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Conference (UMAP 2009, UMAP 2010, UMAP 2011, UMAP 2012, UMAP 2016, UMAP 2017, UMAP 2018, UMAP 2021, UMAP 2022 UMAP 2024) - Research Track, Doctoral Consortium and Demonstrations.

• Program committee member for the Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence. CAEPIA 2009.

• Program committee member for the workshop on Intelligent Educational Games at AIED 2009.

• Program committee member for the Sixth UAI Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop. UAI 2007.

Reviewer Experience

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

• Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

• Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 

• Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA)

• Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal (CALL)

• Educational Assessment (EA)

• Educational Data Mining (EDM)

• Educational Researcher (ER)

• European Journal of Psychology of Education (EJPE)

• International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT)

• Instructional Science (IS)

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (IAED)

• Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE)

• Intelligent Tutoring Systems –International Conference (ITS)

• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED)

• International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE)

• International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU).

• Journal of Educational Computing Research (JECR)

• Journal of Educational Psychology

• National Science Foundation. Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)

• Studies in Educational Evaluation

• Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (TICL)

• The Board on Science Education of the National Research Council (NRC)

• Transactions on Learning Technologies (IEEE - TLT)

• Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)

• User Modeling –International Conference (UM)

• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

Affiliations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• American Educational Research Association (AERA) 

• National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)

• Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (AIED)

• Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

• IEEE

Volunteer Work

• Judge for Mercer Science and Engineering Fair (2015 - 2019).

• HISPA role model. Enabling Hispanic/Latino Role Models to Inspire Students’ Performance and Achievement (2010-2012, 2017 - Current). 

• HISPA Ambassador. Enabling Hispanic/Latino Role Models to Inspire Students’ Performance and Achievement (2018 - Current). 

• HISPA Workshop Organizer and Presenter. ETS Workshop on new Assessment Technologies presented at HISPA Youth Conferences (2018 – 2021).

• Mentor to Trenton high school students through Science Mentors (2005 - 2019).

• Volunteer at “Super Saturday.” Promoting Computer Science among first nation children. University of Saskatchewan. (July, 2000 and May 2002).

• Student volunteer at several conferences including UM’99, VIS’99, CSCL’99, and IJCAI’01.

• Divisional judge at the Canada Wide Science Fair. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (May, 2002).

• ETS's Hispanic celebration (CELEBRATING OUR DIVERSITY: Cultures of Spain, Portugal and the Americas) (October 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008).

• ETS's Visitor Scholars, Picnic Volunteer. (June 2007).