Arthur Graesser

Dr. Graesser is an Emeritus professor, Distinguished University Professor of Interdisciplinary Research and the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego. His research is in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences, with more specific interests include question asking and answering, tutoring, reading, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, memory, emotions, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. He served as editor of the journals Discourse Processes (1996–2005) and Journal of Educational Psychology (2009-2014) and as presidents of the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media (1989-1992), the Society for Text and Discourse (2007-2010), the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (2007- 2009), and the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation (2012-13). In addition to publishing over 600 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings, he has written 3 books and co-edited 16 books. He and his colleagues have developed and tested software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including those that hold a conversation in natural language and interact with multimedia (such as AutoTutor) and those that analyze text on multiple levels of language and discourse (Coh-Metrix and Question Understanding Aid -- QUAID). He was a member of OECD expert panels on problem solving, namely PIAAC 2011 Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments, PISA 2012 Complex Problem Solving, PISA 2015 Collaborative Problem Solving (chair), and PIAAC Complex Problem Solving 2021.