Graduate School of Education
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Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Religious Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Kelman's research focuses on the forms and practices of religious knowledge transmission. His work emerges at the intersection of sociocultural learning theory and scholarly/critical studies of religion, and his methods draw on the social sciences and history. Currently Professor Kelman is at work on a variety of projects ranging from a history of religious education in the post-war period to an inquiry about Google's implicit definitions of religion.
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Samin Khan
Masters Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
BioSamin Khan is an AI product-builder for higher education with a former life as an AI researcher and founder. Holding a background in computer science and cognitive science from the University of Toronto, Samin leveraged computational linguistics to predict mental health trends. This research was the foundation of his start-up, Autumn, which leveraged a privacy-first AI model to assist remote teams in averting burnout during the pandemic. Autumn was acquired by Qualtrics in 2023. Samin was also a founding engineer of smartARM, a company recognized globally for creating the world’s first AI-driven robotic prosthetic arm. This project won Microsoft’s flagship technology competition, Imagine Cup, in 2018. Today, Samin leads AI product and research development at ACUE, bringing AI to support training over 26,000 higher education instructors and professors with effective teaching practise credentials.
