Anna Rafferty

Carleton College

Collaborator

Anna Rafferty is an associate professor at Carleton College in Computer Science. She finished her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2014. Her recent work has been most concerned with how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to improve education. Her projects have included developing algorithms to automatically diagnose students’ understanding from their actions as well as more applied projects related to improving chemistry learning in the classroom. If you want to see some of these algorithms in action, check out Emmy’s Workshop, a website Anna and her collaborators developed to help people practice their algebra skills. In the past, she’s also worked in natural language processing.

Anna also loves teaching and working with students. She has taught many courses, including intro to computer science, data structures, mathematics of computer science, computability and complexity, artificial intelligence, and computational models of cognition. She also advises senior comps projects.