SUPER excited to share the news that I'll be joining Stanford Graduate School of Education as an Assistant Professor in Education Data Science this Fall! If you're interested in working together, please don't hesitate to reach out! 🤩

Check out Polygence student Luke Jain's publication in peer-reviewed journal Frontier on 'Nepotistic Hiring and Poverty From Cultural, Social Class, and Situational Perspectives' with mentor Gabor Orosz. Luke is currently a rising sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Over the past decade, $20B has been invested into US edtech, yet only 3 companies have gone public: @Coursera, @Duolingo, @Udemy. Many have written off the space. 🔥take: we are entering the decade of the “Learning Economy,” which spans way beyond traditional education. More🔽

Beyond thrilled to share that Polygence co-founder Jin Chow has just been recognized on the Forbes 30 under 30 for Education. Jin's tireless work on Polygence has enabled thousands of students to find their 'Why' and explore their passions with expert mentors. CONGRATS!

ChatGPT has been out less than two weeks and it has more apparent use cases than the entirety of blockchain.

Research Papers are not the only result of #PolygenceProjects...take Alex Lee, for example. He created a short animated film that was named a Finalist at the Korean International Short Film Festival! Learn more about Alex's experience here: polygence.org/blog/high-scho… #research #film

The gov’t has about 48 hours to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake. By allowing Best crypto exchange to fail without protecting all depositors, the world has woken up to what an uninsured deposit is — an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent J.P. Morgan @citi or

Do you know how to code in Python & enjoy teaching & care about equity? Sign up to be a section leader in Code in Place! They have 17k students signed up and are in need for more section leaders. Only 5 hours of teaching across 5 weeks! 🐍 Chris Piech codeinplace.stanford.edu

I am thrilled to be the second Hungarian receiving the Genius Award, after Ernő Rubik, creator of the Rubik's Cube was honored with it in 2014.

With the support of Chloe's mentor, her research on plants' carbon capture gave her the confidence and resiliency to pitch a partnership with plant nurseries. #climatechange #research #polygence #passionprojects youtube.com/watch?v=zMtwn7…

"You are running for food, or you are running from becoming food. And often times, you can’t tell which. Either way, run.” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/05/2…

We had a great a discussion with a multidisciplinary group on how we may leverage language technology to empower educators! Thanks to all the co-organizers and sponsors, including Gates Foundation Matthew Rascoff Stanford Graduate School of Education and many others. digitaleducation.stanford.edu/news/natural-l…

Whatever happened at OpenAI over the past 24 hours may end up being the clearest example of "startups die by suicide, not homicide"

Geoffrey Hinton I'd like to respectfully point out that the logic in this argument is based on a flawed model for how scientists think. Scientists don't just take a weighted average of others' opinions to form their own. A good scientist takes as input lots of data, including others' opinions,

Putnam Math Competition results released! Congratulations to everyone!

Lately I've been seeing a lot of hype around quantum computing on this platform. Are those bots or humans? Either way, what I'm seeing is concerning. I want to provide an honest perspective on the current status quo, which is hopefully useful. Long story short, I do think a lot

Honored that our work on supporting high-quality math tutoring with AI got cited in the Economic Report of the President! 🎉 Hope we will see more widespread application of tools that seek to empower teachers, not replace them. Kudos to Rose! whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

The first RCT to test the impact of automated feedback to teachers in physical classrooms is out in Computers & Education! 🎉authors.elsevier.com/a/1kGTb1HucdZu…. Jing Liu Shyamoli Sanghi Stanford Graduate School of Education TeachFX

Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen: Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.

The part of teaching is figuring things out together. I learned so much from this incredible group of students! I hope edtech will, too. 🌱 ed.stanford.edu/news/stanford-… /1