Ph.D. Students and Post-Docs
Doctoral Debra Long 1989 Tenured Full Professor, now emeritus. University of California, Davis
Doctoral Keith Millis 1990 Tenured Full Professor, now Emeritus, Northern Illinois University
Doctoral Kathy Lang 1990 High Tech Business Owner, New Jersey, now retired
Doctoral Darold Hemphill 1991 Manager in a research division at SAIC in New Jersey
Doctoral Chris Forsythe 1992 Research Scientist at Sandia Labs, now retired
Doctoral Levy Eymard 1993 Human Factors Psychologist
Doctoral Joseph Magliano 1993 Tenured Full Professor, Georgia State University
Doctoral Eugenie Bertus 1994 Manager in a research division at a firm in Texas
Doctoral Nathalie Person 1994 Tenured Full Professor, Rhodes College
Doctoral Cheryl Bowers 1996 Associate Professor, University of Memphis, Lambuth
Doctoral Shane Swamer 1996 Human Factors Specialist in a firm in San Diego
Doctoral Bill Baggett 1998 Research Associate Professor, IIS, University of Memphis
Doctoral Katja Wiemer 2000 Tenured Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University
Doctoral Brent Olde 2002 Research Director, Office of Naval Research, then Professor at University of South Hampton, UK
Doctoral Shannon Whitten 2003 Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, Palm Bay
Doctoral Shulan Lu 2004 Tenured Full Professor, East Texas A&M University
Doctoral Heather Mitchell 2005 Tenured Associate Professor, Webster College
Doctoral Matthew Ventura 2005 Research Scientist, Pearson Education, now self-employed
Doctoral Andrew Olney 2006 Tenured Full Professor, Director of IIS, U. Memphis (Computer Science, with Lee McCauley), now Emeritus.
Doctoral Tanner Jackson 2007 Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service
Doctoral Moongee Jeon 2008 Tenured Full Professor, Konkuk University, South Korea
Doctoral Sidney D’Mello 2009 Tenured Full Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder (Computer Science, with Stan Franklin)
Doctoral Patrick Chipman 2010 Experimental Psychology, ABD, Vice President at Concentrix Realitywerks System Design
Doctoral Jeremiah Sullins 2010 Tenured Associate Professor, Harding University
Doctoral Amy Johnson 2011 Visiting Research Faculty, Arizona State University
Doctoral Brent Morgan 2014 Business start-up in learning and discourse technologies
Doctoral Blair Lehman 2014 Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service, then Brighter Research
Doctoral Amber Strain 2014 Research Scientist, Decooda
Doctoral Carol Forsyth 2014 Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service
Doctoral Haiying Li 2015 Program Manager, Learning Analytics, University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral Nia Dowell 2017 Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Doctoral Shi Feng 2018 Research Assistant Professor, California State University, Humboldt
Doctoral Ying Fang 2019 Associate Professor, Central China Normal University (with Xiangen Hu)
Doctoral Genghu Shi 2021 Assistant Professor, Guangxi Normal University (with Xiangen Hu)
Doctoral Keith Shubeck 2022 Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research (with Xiangen Hu)
Doctoral Colin Carmon 2025 On the job market
Doctoral Liang Zhang 2025 Postdoc, University of Georgia (with Mohammad Yeason, Frank Andrasic, and Xiangen Hu)
Postdoctoral Jonathan Golding 1988 Tenured Full Professor, University of Kentucky
Postdoctoral Rolf Zwaan 1994 Tenured Full Professor, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Postdoctoral Victor Ottati 1995 Tenured Full Professor, Loyola University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Peter Hastings 2000 Tenured Associate Professor, DePaul University (Computer Science)
Postdoctoral Jim Hoeffner 2000 Lecturer, University of Michigan
Postdoctoral Max Louwerse 2003 Tenured Full Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Postdoctoral Kris Moreno 2003 Microsoft Corporation in research on games and animated agents
Postdoctoral Christian Hempelmann 2005 Tenured Associate Professor, East Texas A&M University (with Danielle McNamara)
Postdoctoral David Dufty 2006 Writer, researcher, presenter, Australia
Postdoctoral Yasuhiro Ozuru 2006 Tenured Full Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage (with Danielle McNamara)
Postdoctoral Roger Taylor 2008 Tenured Associate Professor, State University of New York, Oswego
Postdoctoral Scotty Craig 2010 Tenured Associate Professor , Arizona State University (with Barry Gholson)
Postdoctoral Fazel Keshtkar 2011 Tenured Associate Professor, St. Johns University, New York City
Postdoctoral Benjamin Nye 2015 Assistant Professor and Director of the Learning Sciences, Institute of Creative
Technologies, University of Southern California (with Xiangen Hu)
Postdoctoral Brent Morgan 2018 Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, University of Memphis and Rhodes College; business start up
Postdoctoral Drew Hampton 2018 Assistant Professor, Christian Brothers University
Postdoctoral Anne Lippert 2019 Assistant Professor, Prairie View A&M University