CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, anticipated start Spring 2025
• Arizona State University – School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) Committee Co-chairs: Assistant Professor Ricardo Eiris (SSEBE) and Assistant Professor Chris Bryan (SCAI)
• B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics
• Arizona State University – SCAI & School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, 2021-2025 GPA: 3.75

Research Interests

• Intelligent tutoring and adaptive learning systems
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Human-computer interaction and immersive learning
• Data visualization and computer graphics
• Applied computer vision and natural language processing
• Cognitive science-informed learning analytics

Research Positions

• Research Assistant, Construction Workforce and Technology (CWT) Lab, SSEBE, Arizona State University (May 2025–Present)
  NSF HCC Grant 2436881 — Modeling learning engagement using AI and gaze data to improve VR immersive training
  NSF CUE-T Grant 2434429 — Addressing hidden curricula within computer science education
  NSF iVisit Grant 2336507 — Creating situated learning experiences through web-based virtual field trips
• Project Management Assistant & Research Software Engineer, IoT and Robotics Education Lab, SCAI, Arizona State University (Aug 2024–Present)
  Jupyter Textbooks — Extending JupyterLab into an edge-powered interactive textbook platform
  RASQAL — Retrieval augmented schema-based question generation for adaptive learning
  SAGE — Student Assistant for Guided Explanations (formerly ASU Instructor Assistant GPT)
• Undergraduate Researcher, NSF REU, Sensable Heatscapes and Digital Environments (SHaDE) Lab, SCAI, Arizona State University (Spring 2023–Present)
  OpenMRT — NSF CAREER Grant CMMI-1942805 exploring human thermal exposure and heat resilience in cities

Industry Experience

• Assistant Software Developer, Waybright Technology Academy (Nov 2022–Jan 2024)
  Orchestrated the organization-wide migration to Canvas LMS, including SSO configuration and course content conversion
  Began development of a Python/Django/PostgreSQL student information system to manage records, enrollment, and transcripts

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster, CAP LTER ASM Poster Symposium (2025)
• Certificate of Excellence: Outstanding Innovation, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program (2024)
• Generator Award: Outstanding Team Leader, Engineering Projects in Community Service (2024)
• SUN Award for leadership and innovation, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (2024)
• Most Creative Use of GitHub, sunhacks (2023)
• Devils Invent, 2nd Place — Attendance Management System (2023)
• New American University Scholar (President’s Award)
• Dean’s List, multiple semesters

Publications & Manuscripts

• P. Shaeri, R. T. Woo, Y. Mohammadpour, A. Middel. Explainable Human-in-the-Loop Segmentation via Critic Feedback Signals. Submitted to IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2026.
• M. Sheibanian, P. Shaeri, A. Beigi, R. T. Woo, A. Keluskar. Tri-Accel: Curvature-Aware Precision-Adaptive and Memory-Elastic Optimization for Efficient GPU Usage. arXiv:2508.16905. Submitted to ScaleOPT Workshop at NeurIPS 2025.
• A. Middel, P. Shaeri, R. T. Woo, S. Krayenhoff. OpenMRT: Outdoor Thermal Exposure and Comfort Modeling using Street View Imagery. Manuscript in preparation for the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science (2025).

Selected Presentations

• Using Facial Emotion Recognition to Improve Understanding of Learning Processes. ASU Summer Research Initiative Symposium (2025).
• OpenMRT: Image-Based Human Thermal Exposure Model for Ground-Level Simulation. Urban Climate Research Center Symposium / CAP LTER ASM Symposium (2025).
• ASU Instructor Assistant GPT. Co-Making the Future: China-U.S. Young Makers Competition (2024).

Teaching & Course Support

• ASU CSE 445: Distributed Software Development — Instructional Assistant (Fall 2025–Present); Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Spring 2025–Summer 2025); Grader (Fall 2024)
• ASU SCAI Robotics Camp for Middle and High School — Camp Instructor assisting Dr. Yinong Chen (Summer 2025)
• ASU SCAI CSE 310: Data Structures and Algorithms — Course Support Staff (Spring 2024)
• Waybright Technology Academy: Intro to Audio Engineering — Course Instructor (Fall 2024)
• ASU SCAI CSE 240: Introduction to Programming Languages — Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2023)
• ASU SCAI CSE 205: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures — Course Development Assistant (Fall 2023–Spring 2024); Grading Coordinator (Spring 2023); Grader (Fall 2022)
• ASU SCAI CSE 110: Principles of Programming (Barrett Honors) — Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2022)

Service & Leadership

• Programming Module Lead, SCAI Desert CodeSprouts Workshop for Middle School Children (2025)
• Project Sponsor & Product Manager, Jupyter Textbooks — Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) (Fall 2024–Present)
• Judge, EPICS High (2024, 2025) and sunhacks (2024)
• President, Software Developers Association (SoDA) at ASU (Fall 2024–Spring 2025); organized InnovationHacks and the 11th Annual Code Challenge
• Project Manager, Attendance Management System — EPICS (Spring 2023–Fall 2024)
• Director of Technology, SoDA at ASU (Fall 2023–Spring 2024); organized Hack SoDA 2024 and the 10th Annual Code Challenge
• Curriculum Developer, 2Unify Education — EPICS (Spring 2022)
• Technology Officer, SoDA at ASU (Fall 2022–Spring 2023)