TRAIL Lab

The Lab

09 members
Shamya Karumbaiah
Shamya Karumbaiah
Lab Director
Ananya Ganesh
Ananya Ganesh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anurag Maravi
Anurag Maravi
Software Engineer
Kaycie Barron
Kaycie Barron
PhD Student
Alina Guha
Alina Guha
PhD Student
Pragati Maheshwary
Pragati Maheshwary
PhD Student
Yaxuan Yin
Yaxuan Yin
PhD Student

Advisor: Jacob Thebault-Spieker

Jaeyoon Choi
Jaeyoon Choi
PhD Student

Advisor: Nia Nixon-Dowell

Shivani Choudhary
Shivani Choudhary
Undergraduate Student

Advisor: Shamya Karumbaiah

Collaborators

09
Daniel Bolt
Daniel Bolt
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Psychology
Harry Brighouse
Harry Brighouse
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Philosophy
Mariana Castro
Mariana Castro
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Multlingual Learning Research Center
Junjie Hu
Junjie Hu
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biostatistics, Computer Science
Keisha Lindsay
Keisha Lindsay
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science, Gender & Women's Studies
Jeff Matayoshi
Jeff Matayoshi
ALEKS Corporation
Diego Roman
Diego Roman
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Curriculum & Instruction
Devansh Saxena
Devansh Saxena
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Information School
Sandra Taylor-Marshall
Sandra Taylor-Marshall
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professional Learning & Community Education

Alumni

13
Cynthia Baeza
Cynthia Baeza
Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
Ju Lim
Ju Lim
Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Jihyun Rho
Jihyun Rho
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Florida
Nora Tseng
Nora Tseng
MS Computer Science, University of California, San Diago (UCSD)
Shona A
Shona A
Software Engineer, Pinterest
Sara Schwartz
Sara Schwartz
MA English, University of Wyoming
Tanay Nagar
Tanay Nagar
MS Intelligent Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
Vivek Saravanan
Vivek Saravanan
Software Engineer, Databricks
Collin Pitts (Summer Education Research Program)
Collin Pitts (Summer Education Research Program)
PhD Student, University of South Carolina
Kiyo White
Kiyo White
BA Education, Colby College
Aayush Bharadwaj
Aayush Bharadwaj
Software Engineer, Capital One
Lucas Anderson
Lucas Anderson
Software Engineer, Cashmere
Sam (Shanglin) Yang
Sam (Shanglin) Yang
Machine Learning Engineer, Batch Size Matters LLC
Part of the Universities of Wisconsin

Contact

1025 W Johnson St

Madison, WI 53706

shamya.karumbaiah@wisc.edu

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Affiliations

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