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Sreecharan "Sree" Sankaranarayanan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the use of conversational agents to support group-work in online learning contexts. As a part of the Technology for Effective and Efficient Learning (teel.cs.cmu.edu) lab, his work has been applied to project courses offered to several hundred students each semester at Carnegie Mellon University and its worldwide branch campuses. He currently serves as the Founder Co-Chair of the International Learning Sciences Student Association (ILSSA), a committee of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) for students of the learning sciences.