Kirill Kireyev, PhD kireyev at colorado dot edu

Kirill Kireyev holds a joint PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of Colorado, Boulder.

His research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, linguistics, cognitive science and education focuses on personalized educational technologies.

Kirill is the founder of instaGrok - a web search engine for educational content.

Over the past 4 years as a researcher for Pearson Education (Knowledge Technologies), Kirill has worked on several research projects in state-of-the-art educational technologies that involved developing algorithms for:

• computational estimation of text complexity
• computational estimation of expected vocabulary knowledge by learners of different levels
• finding of important vocabulary words in texts
• personalized teaching of vocabulary words by presenting them in automatically-extracted context that illustrates the words' meaning
• generating multiple-choice vocabulary tests
• assessment of writing style and language proficiency

Prior to that Kirill has worked as a research assistant at University of Colorado, on projects bridging natural language processing and human-computer interaction, including: Language technologies to assist people with cognitive disabilities, including research on:

• automated text simplification
• text summarization
• automated word suggestion
• web document classification
• GroupScribbles: collaborative visual educational application in collaboration with SRI International
• Piki: computational wiki for scientific collaboration in collaboration with SRI International

Personal website: Kirill Kireyev