Paul Taele

Educational Background

• Ph.D. (Computer Science), Texas A&M University
• M.S. (Computer Science), Texas A&M University
• B.S. (Mathematics), University of Texas at Austin
• B.S. (Computer Science), University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests

• Sketch Recognition
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligent User Interfaces

Awards & Honors

• EAAI-20 New and Future AI Educator Travel Support Grant, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
• Ford Foundation Fellowships 2015 Dissertation Competition Honorable Mention, National Research Council of the National Academies, 2015
• National Science Foundation Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2014
• College of Engineering Graduate Student Travel Fund, Texas A&M University, 2013
• National Science Foundation Doctoral Consortium Student Travel Award Grant, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2013
• Texas Public Education Grant, Texas A&M University, 2013
• Office of Graduate Studies Graduate Presentation Grant, Texas A&M University, 2013
• East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2013
• East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2012
• Graduate Leadership Excellence Award, Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science & Engineering, 2011
• Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Graduate Fellowship, Texas A&M University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2009
• Texas Aggie Graduate Grant, Texas A&M University, 2008

Selected Publications

• 2020. Taele, P., Koh, J.I., and Hammond, T. "Kanji Workbook: A Writing-Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning Proper Japanese Kanji Writing Technique with Instructor-Emulated Assessment." Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2020). New York, New York, USA. February 9-11, 2020.
• 2018. Peng, Y.-H., Hsu, M.-W., Taele, P., Lin, T.-Y., Lai, P.-E., Hsu, L., Chen, T., Chen, Y.-A., Wu, T.-Y., Tang, H.-H., Chen, M.Y. SpeechBubbles: Enhancing Captioning Experiences for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People in Group Conversations. 2018 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Montreal, Canada. April 21-26, 2018.
• 2015. Taele, P., Barreto, L., and Hammond, T. "Maestoso: An Intelligent Educational Sketching Tool for Learning Music Theory. The Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence." Austin, Texas, USA. January 27-29, 2015.
• 2014. Prasad, M., Taele, P., Hammond, T. and Goldberg, D.W. "HaptiMoto: Turn-by-Turn Haptic Route Guidance Interface for Motorcyclists." ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Toronto, Canada. April 26-May 1, 2014.
• 2009. Taele, P. and Hammond, T. "Hashigo: A Next-Generation Sketch Interactive System for Japanese Kanji." Twenty-First Innovative Applications Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI 2009), Pasadena, California, July 14-16, 2009.