Bio

Dr. Demszky is an Assistant Professor in Education Data Science at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She works on developing natural language processing methods to support equitable and student-centered instruction. She has developed tools to give feedback to teachers on dialogic instructional practices, to analyze representation in textbooks, measure the presence of dialect features in text, among others. Dr Demszky has received her PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University, supervised by Dr Dan Jurafsky. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Demszky received a BA summa cum laude from Princeton University in Linguistics with a minor in Computer Science.

Academic Appointments

Honors & Awards

  • Rising Star in AI for Social Good, Harvard CRCS (2021)

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, Linguistics (2023)
  • B.A., Princeton University, Linguistics (2017)

Contact

  • Academic
    ddemszky@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Assistant Professor

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Research Interests

  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Data Sciences
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Teachers and Teaching
  • Technology and Education

2025-26 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Automated feedback improves teachers' questioning quality in brick-and-mortar classrooms: Opportunities for further enhancement COMPUTERS & EDUCATION Demszky, D., Liu, J., Hill, H. C., Sanghi, S., Chung, A. 2025; 227

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.compedu.2024.105183

    View details for Web of Science ID 001390223000001

  • Scaffolding middle school mathematics curricula with large language models BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Malik, R., Abdi, D., Wang, R., Demszky, D. 2025

    View details for DOI 10.1111/bjet.13571

    View details for Web of Science ID 001462096700001

  • Exploring the Benefit of Customizing Feedback Interventions For Educators and Students With Offline Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits Yun, J., Nie, A., Brunskill, E., Demszky, D., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2025: 944-949

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3706468.3706551

    View details for Web of Science ID 001440918000094

  • (sic) Edu-ConvoKit An Open-Source Library for Education Conversation Data Wang, R. E., Demszky, D. edited by Chang, K. W., Lee, A., Rajani, N. ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2024: 61-69

    View details for Web of Science ID 001516422700006

  • Backtracing: Retrieving the Cause of the Query Wang, R. E., Wirawarn, P., Khattab, O., Goodman, N., Demszky, D. edited by Purver, M., Graham, Y. ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2024: 722-735

    View details for Web of Science ID 001356735800048

  • Bridging the Novice-Expert Gap via Models of Decision-Making: A Case Study on Remediating Math Mistakes Wang, R. E., Zhang, Q., Robinson, C., Loeb, S., Demszky, D. edited by Duh, K., Gomez, H., Bethard, S. ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2024: 2174-2199

    View details for Web of Science ID 001516375900120

  • Kid-Whisper: Towards Bridging the Performance Gap in Automatic Speech Recognition for Children VS. Adults Attia, A., Liu, J., Ai, W., Demszky, D., Espy-Wilson, C., Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024: 74-80

    View details for Web of Science ID 001447715300007

  • Scaling High-Leverage Curriculum Scaffolding in Middle-School Mathematics Malik, R., Abdi, D., Wang, R., Demszky, D., ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024: 476-480

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3657604.3664698

    View details for Web of Science ID 001276257200068

  • Enhancing Tutoring Effectiveness Through Automated Feedback: Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial on SAT Tutoring Yun, J., Hicke, Y., Olson, M., Demszky, D., ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024: 422-426

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3657604.3664681

    View details for Web of Science ID 001276257200051

  • Reframing Authority: A Computational Measure of Power-Affirming Feedback on Student Writing Tan, M., Mah, C., Demszky, D., ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024: 417-421

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3657604.3664680

    View details for Web of Science ID 001276257200050

  • Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform Demszky, D., Wang, R. E., Geraghty, S., Yu, C., Assoc Computing Machinery ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2024: 632-644

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3636555.3636924

    View details for Web of Science ID 001179044200058

  • Using large language models in psychology NATURE REVIEWS PSYCHOLOGY Demszky, D., Yang, D., Yeager, D., Bryan, C., Clapper, M., Chandhok, S., Eichstaedt, J., Hecht, C., Jamieson, J., Johnson, M., Jones, M., Krettek-Cobb, D., Lai, L., Jonesmitchell, N., Ong, D., Dweck, C., Gross, J., Pennebaker, J. 2023; 2 (11): 688-701

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s44159-023-00241-5

    View details for Web of Science ID 001124794900011

  • Can Automated Feedback Improve Teachers' Uptake of Student Ideas? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in a Large-Scale Online Course EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS Demszky, D., Liu, J., Hill, H. C., Jurafsky, D., Piech, C. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.3102/01623737231169270

    View details for Web of Science ID 000984460700001

  • Towards the Future of AI-Augmented Human Tutoring in Math Learning Aleven, V., Baraniuk, R., Brunskill, E., Crossley, S., Demszky, D., Fancsali, S., Gupta, S., Koedinger, K., Piech, C., Ritter, S., Thomas, D. R., Woodhead, S., Xing, W. edited by Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Dimitrova, Matsuda, N., Santos, O. C., Wang, N. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2023: 26-31

    View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_3

    View details for Web of Science ID 001321532000003

  • MD3: The Multi-Dialect Dataset of Dialogues Eisenstein, J., Prabhakaran, V., Rivera, C., Demszky, D., Sharma, D., Int Speech Commun Assoc ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC. 2023: 4059-4063

    View details for DOI 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2150

    View details for Web of Science ID 001186650304043

  • M-Powering Teachers: Natural Language Processing Powered Feedback Improves 1:1 Instruction and Student Outcomes Demszky, D., Liu, J. edited by ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2023: 59-69

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3573051.3593379

    View details for Web of Science ID 001125787500008

  • Measuring Conversational Uptake: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Demszky, D., Liu, J., Mancenido, Z., Cohen, J., Hill, H., Jurafsky, D., Hashimoto, T. 2021
  • Learning to Recognize Dialect Features Demszky, D., Sharma, D., Clark, J. H., Prabhakaran, V., Eisenstein, J., Assoc Computat Linguist ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2021: 2315-2338

    View details for Web of Science ID 000895685602035

  • Measuring Conversational Uptake: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions Demszky, D., Liu, J., Mancenido, Z., Cohen, J., Hill, H., Jurafsky, D., Hashimoto, T., Assoc Computat Linguist ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2021: 1638-1653

    View details for Web of Science ID 000698663100130

  • Learning to Recognize Dialect Features Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Demszky, D., Sharma, D., Clark, J. H., Prabhakaran, V., Eisenstein, J. 2021
  • The Role of Verb Semantics in Hungarian Verb-Object Order Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Demszky, D. 2021
  • Content Analysis of Textbooks via Natural Language Processing: Findings on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Texas US History Textbooks AERA OPEN Lucy, L., Demszky, D., Bromley, P., Jurafsky, D. 2020; 6 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.1177/2332858420940312

    View details for Web of Science ID 000553950300001

  • GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained Emotions Demszky, D., Movshovitz-Attias, D., Ko, J., Cowen, A., Nemade, G., Ravi, S., Assoc Computat Linguist ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. 2020: 4040-4054

    View details for Web of Science ID 000570978204031

  • Partelet: A Hungarian Corpus of Propaganda Texts from the Hungarian Socialist Era Kmetty, Z., Vincze, V., Demszky, D., Ring, O., Nagy, B., Szabo, M. edited by Calzolari, N., Bechet, F., Blache, P., Choukri, K., Cieri, C., Declerck, T., Goggi, S., Isahara, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Mazo, H., Moreno, A., Odijk, J., Piperidis, S. EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOC-ELRA. 2020: 2381-2388

    View details for Web of Science ID 000724697203043

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