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