Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., Human Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University (2006-present)
• B.A., Cognitive Science, U.C. Berkeley (1997-2002)
• Diplôme Supérieur d'Etudes Françaises, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux 3 (2000-2001)

Honors and Awards

• Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (2006-present)
• Next Generation Internet Scholarship (2002)
• Regents' Scholarship (1997-2001)
• Comcast Scholarship (1997)

Publications

Conference Papers

• Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2008). Open community authoring of targeted worked example problems. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Montreal, Quebec, Canada (pdf)
• Slotta, J., Aleahmad, T., and Zimmerman, T. (2005) Scaffolding Interactive Learning: The Case for a Rich Interoperability Framework. Poster session at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
• Aleahmad, T., & Slotta, J. (2002). Integrating Handheld Technology and Web-Based Science Activities: New Educational Opportunities. Proc. of 14th World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 2002). (pdf)

Workshop Papers

• Slotta, J.D., Aleahmad, T., and Bannasch, S. (2008). The Scalable Architecture for Interactive Learning (SAIL) - New tools and communities for research. Workshop presentation at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Aleahmad, T., Slotta, J. and van Joolingen, W. (2007). Authoring Frameworks for Integrating Collaborative Learning Technologies. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. July 17. Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
• Gobert, Tinker, Horwitz, Slotta, Aleahmad (2006). Authoring, Assessment & Open Source: Implications for Research and Classroom Application. 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. June 27. Indiana University, Bloomington IN
• Slotta, J.D., and Aleahmad, T. (2005). The Scalable Architecture for Interactive Learning (SAIL) -- Background, design and demonstration. Annual meeting of the Technology-enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) center. July 13-17. State College, Pennsylvania

Presentations

• Aleahmad, T., Balakrishnan, A., Wong, J., Fussel, S., Kiesler, S. (2008) Fishing for Sustainability: The Effects of Indirect and Direct Persuasion. Work in Progress. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008.
• Aleahmad, T. (2002) Video 911. NGI Scholar presentations. Berkeley, CA (paper | slides )

Professional Experience

• TELS Project (2003-Present)
• WISE Project (1998-Present)
• PublicStaticVoidMain, Inc. (2003)

Teaching Experience

• Cognitive Science 1: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Fall 2001)
  teaching assistant and lectured

Professional Services

• Association for Computing Machinery SIG-CHI and SIG-CSE
  Member (2007-Present)
• American Education Research Association
  Member (2007-Present)
  Reviewer (2007)
• International Society of the Learning Sciences
  Member (2007-Present)
  Reviewer (2007)

Languages

• English - native
• French - proficient