At SJSU, I am working with business undergraduate students to investigate the use of artificial intelligence for social good. 

 

Ongoing projects

 

Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Business Students through Social Innovation

In this ongoing project, I'm conducting evidence-based education research to explore how to effectively engaging business students to learn AI through social innovation. In particular, we use emerging technologies such as chatbot (using Juji), visual recognition, sentiment analysis, personality insights (using IBM Watson).

• Research published in AMCIS 2020, Communication of AIS,DSJIE
• Featured by ABC7 news, IBM (article 1, article 2, article 3), EdSurge

 

Intelligent Tools for AI Education

Research lead: Terri Lee (BS in MIS, 2021)

 

AI-Powered Drones for First Responders

Research lead: Sambhav Gupta (BS in Finance, 2020)

• 2nd place in Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge 2019
• Research published in AMCIS 2020

 

Artificially Intelligent Career Counselors for College Students

Research lead: Terri Lee (BS in MIS, 2021)

• Research published in AMCIS 2019

 

AI Tutors in the Classroom

Research lead: Sambhav Gupta (BS in Finance, 2020)

• Research published in PACIS 2019
• 2nd place in CSU Student Research Competition 2019

 

Supervised student projects (selected)

 

Student Assistant Motivator (SAM)

Student lead: Alan Nguyen, Edson-Jossue Duran, Joey Hoang, Andy Ye and Jesse Chow.

• Featured by IBM

MyMeals: Intelligent Healthy Meal Planning Assistant During COVID-19

Student lead: Tianjie Zhu (BS Business Analytics 2020), Michael Chiang (BS MIS 2021), Linh Trac (BS MIS 2020), Joshua Zanger (BS MIS 2020), Alison Nguyen (BS MIS 2020)

• Published in ACM DIS workshop
• featured by ABC7 news

 

ConserveE: Energy Saving While Staying At Home During COVID-19

Student Lead: Greg Diehl, Ava Enjavi, Siyuan Zhao, Yizhan Xue

• Featured by IBM 

 

International Student Assistant: AI assistant that helps international student navigate the higher education system

Student Lead: Harshika Chadha (BS in MIS 2020), Jaywood Tse (MIS), Jaykie Tse (MIS)

CASExplorer: AI assistant that helps CS students explore academic and professional world

Student Lead: Tianjie Zhu (Business Analytics), Linh Trac (MIS), Terri Lee (MIS), Zizhen Huang (Computer Science), Sophia Liu (high school graduate, incoming freshman at Brown University)

PACA: a Slack app that uses IBM Watson Assistant to analyze keywords and give coaching for physical activities to keep those working at home moving.

Student Lead: Camille Kae Valerio (MIS), Marcus Chan (MIS), Geordan Banks (MIS)

 

For previous projects, please check out here.