About

The AI in Education Research group in UCSC conducts research on enhancing the quality of education by applying latest developments of AI. Our research mainly focuses on harnessing the power of Generative AI and Large Language Models to develop interactive, high quality educational chatbots. We have developed a Teaching Assistant Bot (TA BOT) for a Software Engineering Course which is available on https://chat.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ for experimentation.

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Projects

Completed Projects

  • Teaching Assistant Bot for Software Engineering (deployed for experimentation)

Ongoing Projects

  • Development of tools to connect TA BOT to Moodle LMS forums and other collaboration platforms like Slack, WhatsApp
  • Development of a TA BOT for Legal education for Sri Lankan Law
  • Development of a TA BOT for Indigenous Medical Education in Sinhala.
  • Development of Generative-AI driven Chat Bot for Buddhist philosophy in Sinhala and English
  • Enhancing Automated Marking: Leveraging Large Language Models and Automated Feedback Generation.

Research Team

Principal Investigator

Research Team

Research Assistants

  • Mr. Sudam Lankesha Rohanadeera (BSc in Computer Networks (First Class Honors), Master of Computer Science (Reading)- UCSC)

Research Interns

  • Ms. R W K Palihawadana (BSc Computer Science- 3rd year student)

Publications

  • Rohanadeera, S L., Hewagamage, K P. “Enhancing Large Language Models with Custom Data: Leveraging of Document Indexing for Contextual Embeddings,” APAN56 Conference Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2023.
  • Rohanadeera, S L., Hewagamage, K P. “Integration of AI-based Teaching Assistant BOT in Academic Courses to Facilitate Learning among Large Student Groups,” 2nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, 2023.