Advisory & Community Activity Roles

Advisory Board Member, NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) Title: Project CLASSIFIES (Common Language Assessment in Studying Statistics with Instructional Feedback and Increased Enrollment Scalability) [NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)] (PI: Matthew Beckman Dennis Pearl (Penn State University), Rebecca Passonneau (Penn State University).; co-PIs: Dennis Pearl (Penn State University), Rebecca Passonneau (Penn State University).]

Editorial Board, Review Editor, Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, March 2020 - February 2021.

General Chair, The Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2019), June 2 - 7, 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Chair, ACL Special Interest Group on Building Educational Applications (SIG EDU), 2018 - present.

Co-founder/organizer, Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2003 - present.

Advisory Board Member, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Grant Award #R305A180269, Intelligent Diagnostic Assessment Platform® i-DAP© for High School Statistics Education, (PI: Ying Cheng), 2018-2022.

Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2018 - 2020.

Editorial Board, Computer, Speech, and Language, 2016-2017.

Standing Reviewer Team, Transactions of the ACL (TACL), 2016-2020.

Advisory Board Member,  U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Grant Award #R305A160245, Response-to-Text Tasks to Assess Students' Use of Evidence and Organization in Writing: Using Natural Language Processing for Scoring Writing and Providing Feedback At-Scale (PI: Diane Litman; Co-PI: Richard Correnti), 2016-2019.

Advisory Board Member, LEAD Graduate School, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, 2015-present.

Board of Visitors Member, Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), University of Pittsburgh, 2014-2017.

Consultant, National Science Foundation, Identifying Linguistic Factors Associated with Differential Student Performance on Middle School Science Assessments (PI: George De Boer, American Association for Advancement of Science).

Advisor, Automated Scoring Summit, Council of Chief School State Officers, Chicago, May 20-21, 2014.