The Center for Science Engagement actively engages in and disseminates the results of the research our staff and affiliated researchers are working on.  Below please find a sampling of some of our upcoming, recent and related work: 

November 20, 2025 – New Preprint: – CSE Founder & lead researcher Barnas Monteith has just released initial results of an exciting  new project focused on using transformer embedding (AI) to better analyze and determine student outcomes from STEM Edtech interventions.  Check it out on www.techrxiv.org : Interpretable Transformer Framework for Adaptive Learning Analytics: Insights from a Logic-Based Data Science / AI Education Intervention  – Barnas Monteith (Center for Science Engagement) ,Yuanlin Zhang (Dept of Computer Science, Texas Tech University), Linlin Li (Learning & Technology, WestEd)

Cite as: Barnas Monteith, Yuanlin Zhang, Linlin Li. Interpretable Transformer Framework for Adaptive Learning Analytics: Insights from a Logic-Based Data Science / AI Education Intervention. TechRxiv. November 20, 2025.
DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.176365711.14370585/v1 Registration in progress

 

October 6, 2025 – CSE attended the Plymouth Spire Center event held by the Mass Cultural Council to celebrate new grantees for the Creative Experiences grant program.  Barnas Monteith was present, during the ceremony, hosted by various members of the legislature, where organizations like CSE were recognized for their new creative, arts / science based programming.  CSE will be using these funds to develop physical AI / robotics-based visual arts programming, in the coming months and beyond.

February 25, 2025 – How Students Learn Functions in an Integrated Introductory Data Science Module
Rabab Mohamed, Anupom Mondol, Dexiu Ma, Jie Chao, Kenia Wiedemann, Janet Bih Fofang, Barnas Monteith, Wanli Xing, Linlin Li, Yelee Jo, April Fleetwood, Lodi Lipien and Yuanlin Zhang
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February 17, 2025 – DSE K-12, Data Science Education K-12 Conference, San Antonio, Texas

CSE Leader Barnas Monteith presents a paper as first author on the use of Vectorized Entropy Analysis in Project LogicDS, at the inaugural annual conference, DSE K-12 in Las Vegas, colocated with CSTA, focused on data science & AI education and research.

October 16, 2024 International Science Festival, Beijing

-CSE Leader Barnas Monteith keynotes a session about the use of new analysis techniques in skills-based and non-cognitive measures for STEM education. along with other top international researchers from the US, Europe and Asia; how do we truly measure and predict science engagement?.

Using Entropy Analysis to Explore Student Engagement in an Online High School Data Science Course

Barnas Monteith,Zifeng Liu,Jie Chao,Kenia Wiedemann,Janet Bih Fofang,Linlin Li,Dexiu Ma,Rabab Mohamed,Anupom Mondol ,Yelee Jo,April Fleetwood,Lodi Lipien,Yuanlin Zhang,Wanli Xing

Techrxiv, August 23, 2024

https://www.techrxiv.org/users/815367/articles/1217621-using-entropy-analysis-to-explore-student-engagement-in-an-online-high-school-data-science-course

 “Engaging Students through Creativity: The Impact of Arts-Based AI Education Programs on Middle and High School Student Conceptual Understanding and Interest.” Paper presentation, M.I.T. AIED 2024:

https://raise.mit.edu/events/ai-education-summit/#Schedule

CHARMM Molecular Simulation Observations of Carbonaceous Materials as Possible Templates for Prebiotic Nucleic Acid Oligomer Formation

Chemrxiv, April 2024

https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/66280954418a5379b084d06e

Use of Large Language Models to Aid Analysis of Textual Data

  International Journal of Qualitative Methods:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16094069241231168?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.985

(also on biorxiv)

Title: Unleashing the Economic Potential of Large Language Models: The Case of Chinese Language
Efficiency – Future Large language model efficiencies may lead to regional economic advantages due to fundamental linguistic disparities. Link  Link to PDF

Teaching AI Through the Arts in Beijing

The Science Teacher—May/June 2022 (Volume 89, Issue 5)

https://www.nsta.org/science-teacher/science-teacher-mayjune-2022/teaching-artificial-intelligence-through-arts-beijing

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Recent Events

October 22, 2025 – Barnas Monteith and the CSE team unveiled a trailer/short film, based on their new AI-designed planetarium show  Quantum Dinosaurs on Mars at the Brockton MA Library Makerspace, during Massachusetts STEM Week.  It’s a science-based fulldome planetarium show (free of charge for non profit/educational groups) about the phsyics and quantum entropy based origins and evolution of life on Earth — as well as a hypothetical scenario exploring the possibility of the parallel evolution of dinosaurs on Mars through a sort of “Martian Panspermia”  Fun for all ages!  See a video about all these activities here.

September 6, 2025: International Planetarium Society
9th Worldwide Meeting dedicated to traveling planetariums: The Portable Universe: Next-Gen STEM Engagement Through Immersive Mobile Planetariums and Generative AI. Cemter fpr Science Engagement

June 10, 2025 – LogicDS Project Poster Session at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Principal Investigator Conference in Washington D.C., presenter: CSE’s Barnas Monteith. See our poster.  More info on LogicDS here.

We presented at the 2024 CSTA-attached NSF PI Conference in Las Vegas, NV about our progress on the NSF-Funded LogicDS Project (NSF Award #2201393): Collaborative Research: Fostering Virtual Learning of Data Science Foundations with Mathematical Logic for Rural High School Students, Las Vegas, Summer 2024

https://www.sagefoxgroup.com/csforallpi2024 

We also presented at MIT’s MIT AIED Conference on AI in Education about our CSE AI+Arts program, held in the Boston area, Chicago, as well as throughout Asia.  

https://easychair.org/cfp/MIT-AIEDU-2024 

Upcoming: We’re tentatively planning on being at AAAI 2026 Singapore; meet up with us there!