Rate My Professor Judy Kay

Kay has made significant contributions through leadership roles, serving as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education from 2012 to 2024 and President of the Artificial Intelligence in Education Society from 2009 to 2011. She has held advisory and editorial positions for journals including ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, and conferences such as Ubicomp/ISWC, with roles like General Chair in 2024 and Technical Program Chair in 2023. Awards include the 2018 ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding scientific contributions to computing and the Distinguished Paper Award for IMWUT Volume 3 in 2019 for work analyzing step data from 140,000 individuals. Notable publications feature the chapter on scrutability in AIED in the Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2023), 'Pervasive Computing Grand Challenges for Smart Learning Environments' in IEEE Pervasive Computing (2022), the EaT app paper and VR game studio study in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (2020), 'Personal User Models for Life-long Learners' in British Journal of Educational Technology (2019), and a summary of 15 years of personalized systems work with Bob Kummerfeld in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2013). Her work has garnered over 16,900 citations on Google Scholar. She has delivered invited keynotes on personalization, open learner models, and learning with uncertainty at venues including AIED 2021 and CHI Down Under 2020. Kay teaches courses such as Human-in-the-loop Data Analytics (DATA3506), Usability Engineering (COMP5427), and advanced research methods for HCI.