December 1 2026

New Journal Publication in Smart Learning Environments

Publication

"A systematic review of intelligent and robot tutoring systems: evolution, pedagogical design, and AI-driven classification" authored by Ehsan Latif, V. Liu, & X. Zhai — published in Smart Learning Environments.

January 28 2026

International Journal of Science Education Paper Published

Publication

"Transforming science teacher education in the era of generative artificial intelligence: global perspectives" co-authored by Ehsan Latif and collaborators — published in International Journal of Science Education.

December 26 2025

Scientific Reports Publication on OpenAI O1 Evaluation

Publication

"Comparative evaluation of OpenAI O1 and human performance in higher order cognition" authored by Ehsan Latif and collaborators — published in Scientific Reports.

June 20 2025

AIED 2025 Best Paper Nomination

Recognition

“Efficient multi-task inference: Model merging with Gromov-Wasserstein feature alignment” authored by Ehsan Latif, L. Fang, H. Lu, Y. Zhou, P. Ma, & X. Zhai — nominated for the Best Paper Award at AIED 2025.

December 1 2025

Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025: SketchMind

Publication

“SketchMind: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Framework for Assessing Student-Drawn Scientific Sketches” authored by Ehsan Latif, Z. Khan, & X. Zhai — accepted for presentation at NeurIPS 2025.

December 1 2025

Paper accepted at ISAAC 2025

Publication

“Anonymous Self-Stabilising Localisation via Spatial Population Protocols” authored by Ehsan Latif, L. Gąsieniec, L. Kuszner, R. Parasuraman, P. Spirakis, & G. Stachowiak — accepted at ISAAC 2025.

June 15 2025

Two papers published in AIED 2025

Publication

Two publications at AIED 2025: (1) “Privacy-Preserved Automated Scoring using Federated Learning for Educational Research” authored by Ehsan Latif, X. Zhai; (2) “Efficient multi-task inference: Model merging with Gromov-Wasserstein feature alignment” authored by Ehsan Latif, L. Fang, H. Lu, Y. Zhou, P. Ma, & X. Zhai.

June 10 2025

AIED 2025: ELL Bias in Automatic Scoring

Publication

“Artificial Intelligence Bias on English Language Learners in Automatic Scoring” authored by Ehsan Latif, S. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Yu, X. Wu, B. Aykin, F. Watt, L. Liu, N. Liu, & X. Zhai — published in AIED proceedings.

February 7 2025

AAAI 2025 Workshop Paper Published (PMLR)

Publication

“Efficient Multi-Task Inferencing with a Shared Backbone and Lightweight Task-Specific Adapters for Automatic Scoring” authored by Ehsan Latif, X. Zhai — available in PMLR.

December 7 2024

NeurIPS 2024 Workshop Paper (PMLR)

Publication

“Gemini Pro Defeated by GPT-4V: Evidence from Education” authored by Ehsan Latif, G. Lee, L. Shi, & X. Zhai — available via PMLR.

August 23 2024

Earned Machine Learning Specialization from Stanford University

Certification

Successfully completed the Machine Learning Specialization from Stanford University, deepening my expertise in advanced machine learning techniques and applications.

July 15 2024

Awarded CPS Rising Star 2025 Fellowship

Award

Received a highly competitive fellowship (<0.17% acceptance rate) to attend the NSF Cyber Physical Systems Rising Star Workshop and PI meeting to establish scholarships and networks among the CPS community.

June 10 2024

Papers Accepted at IROS 2024

Publication

Two papers accepted at the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): "HGP-RL: Distributed Hierarchical Gaussian Processes for Wi-Fi-based Relative Localization in Multi-Robot Systems" and co-authored "Anchor-Oriented Localized Voronoi Partitioning for GPS-denied Multi-Robot Coverage."

May 18 2024

Received Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics Award

Award

My work on "PhysicsAssistant" has been selected for the Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics talk at ICRA 2024 Accelerating Scientific Discovery Workshop and received an award of £500, funded by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and the Acceleration Consortium.

April 20 2024

G-SciEdBERT Model Published on Hugging Face

Research

Our G-SciEdBERT model, a contextualized LLM for Science Assessment Tasks in German, is now available on Hugging Face. This specialized model is fine-tuned for automatic scoring of German-language science education assessments.