He has produced over 150 publications, including edited volumes, journal articles, book chapters, and technical papers. He has served as a reviewer for several international conferences and journals and has been a committee member and organizer of international conferences and workshops in his research areas. He is a Co-PI and research co-director of the INVITE AI Institute.
Research Experience
His research at ETS has focused on the areas of innovations in score reporting and technology-enhanced assessment, including work on adaptive learning and assessment environments, conversation-based assessment, caring assessment, and game-based assessment.
Education
He earned a Ph.D. in computer science (with a focus on artificial intelligence in education) from the University of Saskatchewan in 2003.
Background
Diego Zapata-Rivera is a Distinguished Presidential Appointee at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. His research focuses on innovations in score reporting and technology-enhanced assessment, including adaptive learning and assessment environments, conversation-based assessment, caring assessment, and game-based assessment. His research interests also include Bayesian student modeling, open student models, conversation-based tasks, virtual environments, authoring tools, and program evaluation.
Miscellany
Dr. Zapata-Rivera is a member of the International AI in Education Society Executive Committee (2022-2027), an IEEE Education Society Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2025), a member of the Editorial Board of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, an Associate Editor for IJAIED, AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change, and a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Journal.