Ashok Goel
Ashok K. Goel is a professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing. He is director of the School's Ph.D. Program in Human-Centered Computing, coordinator of the faculty consortium on Creativity, Learning & Cognition, and co-coordinator of the faculty consortium on interactive intelligence.
Goel's research focuces on artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He is the creator of Jill Watson, the world's first artificial intelligence teaching assistant.
Goel is affiliated with the GVU Center, the Institute for People and Technology, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, the Center for 21st Century Universities, and the Health Systems Institute.

Publications
- The Wall Street Journal: Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Reall…
- The Washington Post: What happened when a professor built a chatbot to be his t…
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot
- Business Insider: A professor built an AI teaching assistant for his courses — …
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Ashok Goel teaching class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence (CS 4635/7637) (Photo: Fitrah Hamid)
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