
Luc Paquette
Luc Paquette is a post-doctoral research associate working with Dr. Ryan Baker in the department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. His current research focus on integrating cognitive modeling and educational data mining approaches for the modeling of the disengaged behavior of students who “Game the System”. He is also involved in the development of interaction-based detectors of pedagogically relevant affective states. Luc Paquette holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sherbrooke, where he worked on the development of Astus, a model-tracing tutor authoring framework. As part of the Astus team, his main research project involved developing algorithms allowing Astus to generate pedagogical content by examining the model of the tutored task.