Nigel Bosch
Department of Computer Science
384 Fitzpatrick Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
[email protected]
http://pnigel.com
Last Updated: June 4, 2015
Education
PhD in Computer Science (Expected graduation: May 2017)
Advisor: Dr. Sidney D’Mello
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
B.S. in Computer Science (May 2012)
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, TX 79699
Professional Experience
2012 – present: Graduate Research Assistant. Emotive Computing Lab, University of Notre Dame.
2010 – 2012: Software Development Intern. Milsoft Utility Solutions, Abilene, TX
Funding
2013: Travel Award ($1300). Doctoral Consortium at 16th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education (AIED 2013). National Science Foundation.
2015: Travel Award ($1250). 20th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2015). National
Science Foundation.
Awards
ACM Distinguished Paper Award. (Rodeghero, McMillan, McBurney, Bosch, & D’Mello, 2014)
Publications
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Bosch, N., D’Mello, S., Baker, R., Ocumpaugh, J., Shute, V. J., Ventura, M., … Zhao, W. (2015).
Automatic detection of learning-centered affective states in the wild. In Proceedings of the 2015
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2015) (pp. 379–388). New York,
NY: ACM.
Bosch, N., & D’Mello, S. (2014a). Co-occurring affective states in automated computer programming
education. In E. Walker & C. K. Looi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on AI-supported
Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS) at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent
Tutoring Systems (pp. 21–30).
Rodeghero, P., McMillan, C., McBurney, P. W., Bosch, N., & D’Mello, S. (2014). Improving automated
source code summarization via an eye-tracking study of programmers. In Proceedings of the 36th
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014) (pp. 390–401). New York, NY:
ACM. http://doi.org/10.1145/2568225.2568247
Bosch, N., Chen, Y., & D’Mello, S. (2014). It’s written on your face: detecting affective states from facial
expressions while learning computer programming. In S. Trausan-Matu, K. E. Boyer, M. Crosby,
& K. Panourgia (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems (ITS 2014) (pp. 39–44). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Bosch, N., & D’Mello, S. (2014b). It takes two: momentary co-occurrence of affective states during
computerized learning. In S. Trausan-Matu, K. E. Boyer, M. Crosby, & K. Panourgia (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2014) (pp.
638–639). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Mills, C., Bosch, N., Graesser, A., & D’Mello, S. (2014). To quit or not to quit: predicting future
behavioral disengagement from reading patterns. In S. Trausan-Matu, K. E. Boyer, M. Crosby, &
K. Panourgia (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems (ITS 2014) (pp. 19–28). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Bosch, N., & D’Mello, S. (2013a). Programming with your heart on your sleeve: analyzing the affective
states of computer programming students. In H. C. Lane, K. Yacef, J. Mostow, & P. Pavlik
(Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
(AIED 2013) (pp. 908–911). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Bosch, N., & D’Mello, S. (2013b). Sequential patterns of affective states of novice programmers. In E.
Walker & C. K. Looi (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on AI-supported Education for
Computer Science (AIEDCS 2013) (pp. 1–10).
Bosch, N., D’Mello, S., & Mills, C. (2013). What emotions do novices experience during their first
computer programming learning session? In H. C. Lane, K. Yacef, J. Mostow, & P. Pavlik (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED
2013) (pp. 11–20). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Mills, C., D’Mello, S., Lehman, B., Bosch, N., Strain, A., & Graesser, A. (2013). What makes learning
fun? Exploring the influence of choice and difficulty on mind wandering and engagement during
learning. In H. C. Lane, K. Yacef, J. Mostow, & P. Pavlik (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2013) (pp. 71–80). Berlin
Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
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Kai, S., Paquette, L., Baker, R., Bosch, N., D’Mello, S., Ocumpaugh, J., … Ventura, M. (in press).
Comparison of face-based and interaction-based affect detectors in physics playground. In
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2015).
International Educational Data Mining Society.
Mills, C., D’Mello, S., Bosch, N., & Olney, A. (in press). Mind wandering during learning with an
intelligent tutoring system. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Bosch, N., D’Mello, S., Baker, R., Ocumpaugh, J., & Shute, V. J. (in press). Temporal generalizability of
face-based affect detection in noisy classroom environments. In Proceedings of the 17th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015). Berlin Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag.
Chen, Y., Bosch, N., & D’Mello, S. (in press). Video-Based Affect Detection in Noninteractive Learning
Environments. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining
(EDM 2015). International Educational Data Mining Society.
Professional Activities
Professional Memberships (Past and Current)
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Association for Computing Machinery
International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society
Conference Reviews
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8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2015)
16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014)
5th International Workshop on Empathetic Computing (IWEC-14)
7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014)
6th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2015)
17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015)
Service
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Notre Dame National Robotics Week 2013
Graduate Student Board (2014-2015, 2015-2016)
Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair (NIRSEF 2015) judge
Mentorship
Undergraduate Students
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Yuxuan Chen
Timothy Pusateri
Huili Chen
High School Students
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Gustavo Van Overberghe
Technical Skills
Programming Languages. Bash, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, R
Markup/Query Languages. CSS, HTML, SQL, XML
Platforms. Android, Unix (Linux, Solaris, OSX), Windows, Web
Methodologies. OOP, client/server, event-based, multithreaded, distributed computing, Ajax
Development Environments. GCC/GDB , Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Android Studio, Xcode
Software Tools. Apache, Chrome DevTools, Excel, Git, Mercurial, MySQL, Node.js, numpy/scipy,
PostgreSQL, RapidMiner, scikit-learn, SPSS, SVN, WEKA
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