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Professor Goel's research over the last forty years has focused on cognitive systems at the intersection of AI and cognitive science. Much of his early work on cognitive systems explored computational design and creativity. Much of his recent work investigates AI in education and education in AI. His current research focuses on AI for adult learning and online education.
Professor Goel current interests in teaching focus on knowledge-based AI, cognitive science, AI in education, and education in AI. As part of Georgia Tech OMSCS program, he has developed online courses in knowledge-based AI and cognitive science that have been taken by over 15,000 adult learners.
Ashok Goel, Ploy Thajchayapong, Vrinda Nandan, Harshvardhan Sikka, & Spencer Rugaber (2026; in press). A4L: An Architecture for AI-Augmented Learning. To appear in Online Higher Education Administration: Strategies for Maximizing Returns and Improving Learning Outcomes, Kathleen S. Ives, Ray Schroeder, and Marie Cini (editors), Routledge Press.
Jisu Kim, Mahimul Islam, & Ashok Goel. (2026; in press) A Metacognitive Architecture for Correcting LLM Errors in AI Agents. Accepted for AAAI 2026 Innovative Applications of AI, Singapore, January 2026.
Lingqing Wang, Yingting Gao, Chidimma Anyi, & Ashok Goel. (2026; in press) Futuring Social Assemblages: How Enmeshing AIs into Social Life Challenges the Individual and the Interpersonal. Accepted for CHI 2026, Barcelona, May 2026.
Sungeun An, Jennifer Hammock, & Ashok Goel. (2025) How Online Learners Engage in Self-Directed Modeling: A Behavioral Analysis. International Journal of AI in Education.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00506-5
Rahul Dass, Rochan Madhusudhana, Erin Deye, Shashank Verma, Timothy Bydlon, Grace Brazil, & Ashok Goel. (2025) Ivy: a hybrid knowledge-based and generative AI coach for explaining procedural skills. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, pp. 233-246. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Cherie Lum, Erin Deye, Grace Brazil, Tim Bydlon, Shashank Verma, Rochan Madhsudhana, Rahul Dass, & Ashok Goel (2025) Designing an AI Coaching System for Interactive Video-Based Skill Learning. To appear in the Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).
Pratyusha Maiti, & Ashok Goel. (2025) Can VTA Empower Learners to Ask Critical Questions? In Procs. 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Karan Taneja, Anjali Singh, & Ashok Goel. (2025) Towards a Multimodal Document-Grounded Conversational AI System for Education. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, pp. 92-99. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Lingqing Wang, Yifan Liu, and Ashok K. Goel. (2025) Good" XAI Design: For What? In Which Ways? In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-13.
Lingqing Wang, Chidimma Anyi, Kefan Xu., Yifan Liu, Rosa Arriaga, & Ashok Goel (2025). Explainable AI for Daily Scenarios from End-Users’ Perspective: Non-Use, Concerns, and Ideal Design. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025)