Research

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Science Teaching, Weizmann Institute of Science.

My main research interests are: Artificial Intelligence in Education, Learning Analytics, Educational Data Science, and AI Education. 

News:

  • 15/10/2025 - We are running a Workshop on LLM Psychometrics at LAK'26. Contributions to the workshop are welcomed! Submission deadline is December 4. 

  • 1/8/2025 - Giora Joins the Editorial Board of the Journal of Educational Data Mining

  • On July 20 Giora will give a Keyonte on "Trust in AIED: Why it Matters and the Role XAI" at The 2nd Human-Centric eXplainable AI in Education (HEXED'25), EDM'25 

  • 29/6/2025 Congrats Abigail for newly published paper on The Anna Karenina Principle and Its Implications for Automated Feedback, and to Yael for her new paper proposing a theoretical model for XAI and Trust in AIED

  • 15/1/2025 We won a new AI grant from the WIS AI Institute for a two year research that will study applications of psychometrics and machine learning to seperate Chatbots from Human Learners. 

  • 1/12/2024 Congrats to Alona! on her new paper "Applying IRT to Distinguish Between Humans and Generative AI" that was accepted to LAK'25. See the  arXiv Preprint

  • 10/10/2024 We had a fascinating culinary and historical group trip to Ramla. to the gallery.

  • 10/8/2024 New AI Education program in partnership with The Eddie and Jules Trump Foundation! Announcement

  • 07/26/2024 Congrats to Elad for winning the FGS PhD Prize!!!

  • 05/15/2024 Congrats to Yael and Tanya for BEST PAPER AWARD @CSEDU24. 

  • 13/12/2023 CASEd AgriTour (מתנדבים בעגבניות). to the gallery.

  • 12/10/2023 Congrats to Yael and Shai for winning highly prestigious fellowships! 

  • 12/05/2023 Honored to receive a MoST grant for studying NLP & Assessment! 

  • 06/07/2023 Elad's paper on Social Recommendations accepted to EC-TEL'23 . link to the paper.

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