AI Tutor Provides 24/7 Help to Engineering Students
Outcome/Accomplishment
Dr. Dirk Englund and undergraduate students Hunter Kemeny and Hank Stennes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a partner institution of the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC), have created ChatTutor, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot tool designed for quantum engineering courses.
Impact/Benefits
Born from a summer project, the students intended to create a virtual tutor for Dr. Englund’s quantum engineering class at MIT. From this initial effort they have deployed ChatTutor to Brigham Young University (BYU) and the CQN Winter School. They are planning to expand to other STEM courses. A spin-off, ChatCQN, has been developed which has knowledge of the Center’s past research.
Explanation/Background
Research at the intersection of quantum and AI is one of the core tenants of NSF CQN’s mission. Nearly all work in this area focuses on leveraging the power of quantum computing to build faster, more complex AI tools. NSF CQN Co-Deputy Director Dirk Englund and his students took a different approach with the goal of democratizing education by creating an expert AI tutor for every student.
This project garnered much attention, leading an open-source team to scale ChatTutor to more courses at more universities. The team is working to deploy ChatTutor at MIT across courses in physics and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). To reach even more students, they have partnered with edX and OpenLearning to develop and deploy AI chatbots at public universities and community colleges around the country.
Location
Tucson, Arizonawebsite
Start Year
Microelectronics and IT
Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT
Lead Institution
Core Partners
Fact Sheet
Outcome/Accomplishment
Dr. Dirk Englund and undergraduate students Hunter Kemeny and Hank Stennes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a partner institution of the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC), have created ChatTutor, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot tool designed for quantum engineering courses.
Location
Tucson, Arizonawebsite
Start Year
Microelectronics and IT
Quantum, Microelectronics, Sensing, and IT
Lead Institution
Core Partners
Fact Sheet
Impact/benefits
Born from a summer project, the students intended to create a virtual tutor for Dr. Englund’s quantum engineering class at MIT. From this initial effort they have deployed ChatTutor to Brigham Young University (BYU) and the CQN Winter School. They are planning to expand to other STEM courses. A spin-off, ChatCQN, has been developed which has knowledge of the Center’s past research.
Explanation/Background
Research at the intersection of quantum and AI is one of the core tenants of NSF CQN’s mission. Nearly all work in this area focuses on leveraging the power of quantum computing to build faster, more complex AI tools. NSF CQN Co-Deputy Director Dirk Englund and his students took a different approach with the goal of democratizing education by creating an expert AI tutor for every student.
This project garnered much attention, leading an open-source team to scale ChatTutor to more courses at more universities. The team is working to deploy ChatTutor at MIT across courses in physics and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). To reach even more students, they have partnered with edX and OpenLearning to develop and deploy AI chatbots at public universities and community colleges around the country.