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Learning Sciences and Technology Design, Failure-driven Learning, Socio-emotional Learning, Computational Models of Human Multimodal Behavior
Singapore

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Employment (3)

Nanyang Technological University: Singapore, SG

2023-07 to present | Assistant Professor (National Institute of Education)
Employment
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Tanmay Sinha

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: Zurich, Zürich, CH

2021-10 to 2023-06 | Executive Director (ETH Zurich - EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences)
Employment
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Tanmay Sinha

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: Zurich, ZH, CH

2021-02 to 2023-06 | Postdoctoral Scholar (Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education)
Employment
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Tanmay Sinha

Education and qualifications (3)

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: Zurich, CH

2017-07 to 2021-01 | Dr. Sc. in Learning Sciences (Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education)
Education
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Tanmay Sinha

Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, PA, US

2014-08 to 2016-08 | M.S. in Computer Science (Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science)
Education
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Tanmay Sinha

Vellore Institute of Technology University: Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IN

2010-06 to 2014-06 | B.Tech. in Computer Science (School of Computer Science)
Education
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Tanmay Sinha

Works (44)

Guest Editorial Education in the World of ChatGPT and Generative AI

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Seng Chee Tan; Kay Wijekumar; Huaqing Hong; Justin Olmanson; Robert Twomey; Tanmay Sinha
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Impact of Narrative versus Expository Instruction in Science Education on Recall, Understanding, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis

2024-09-27 | Preprint
Contributors: Samuel Tobler; Tanmay Sinha; Katja Köhler; Ernst Hafen; Manu Kapur
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Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms

Learning and Instruction
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Samuel Tobler; Tanmay Sinha; Katja Köhler; Manu Kapur
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Democratizing Emotion Research in Learning Sciences

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Sunidhi Dhandhania
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Does Deliberately Failing Improve Learning in Introductory Computer Science?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha
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Tanmay Sinha

Embodied Agents to Scaffold Data Science Education

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Shivam Malhotra
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Comparing the effectiveness of preparatory activities that help undergraduate students learn from instruction

Learning and Instruction
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Dragan Trninic; Tanmay Sinha; Manu Kapur
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Enriching problem-solving followed by instruction with explanatory accounts of emotions

Journal of the Learning Sciences
2022-03-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha
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Robust effects of the efficacy of explicit failure-driven scaffolding in problem-solving prior to instruction: A replication and extension

Learning and Instruction
2021-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Manu Kapur
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When Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Works: Evidence for Productive Failure

Review of Educational Research
2021-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Manu Kapur
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From problem-solving to sensemaking: A comparative meta-analysis of preparatory approaches for future learning

2021-05-26 | Other
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Manu Kapur
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Differential benefits of explicit failure-driven and success-driven scaffolding in problem-solving prior to instruction.

Journal of Educational Psychology
2021-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Manu Kapur; Robert West; Michele Catasta; Matthias Hauswirth; Dragan Trninic
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A Novel Multimodal Approach for Studying the Dynamics of Curiosity in Small Group Learning

2021-03-22 | Other
Contributors: Tanmay Sinha; Zhen Bai; Justine Cassell
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The Disappearing “Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math”

Cognitive Science
2020-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Dragan Trninic; Manu Kapur; Tanmay Sinha
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Impact of Explicit Failure and Success-driven Preparatory Activities on Learning

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society
2019 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

The Disappearing “Advantages of Abstract Examples in Learning Math”

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society
2019 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

When Productive Failure Fails

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society
2019 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

A New Theoretical Framework for Curiosity for Learning in Social Contexts

European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
2017 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity

European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
2017 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Theories and Models of Teams and Groups

Small Group Research
2017 | Journal article
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Tanmay Sinha

Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System

17th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
2016 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Cognitive Correlates of Rapport Dynamics in Longitudinal Peer Tutoring

Technical Report, ArticuLab, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
2016 | Other
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Tanmay Sinha

Similarity in Observable Behaviors: A Synthesis of Studies with Implications for Socially-Aware Educational Technology Design

LTI Student Research Symposium 2016, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA
2016 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior

16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
2016 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Connecting the Dots: Predicting Student Grade Sequences from Bursty MOOC Interactions over Time

Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Exploring Socio-Cognitive Effects of Conversational Strategy Congruence in Peer Tutoring

Workshop on Modeling Interpersonal Synchrony, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Fine-grained analyses of interpersonal processes and their effect on learning

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Modeling Similarity in Incentivized Interaction: A Longitudinal Case Study of StackOverflow

NIPS 2015 Workshop on Social and Information Networks, 29th Annual International Conference on Neural Information and Processing Systems
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Pace, Problem Solving and Progress: Mining Interaction Pathways in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

8th inter-Science of Learning Centers Student & Post-Doc (iSLC) Conference
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Teasing Apart Behavioral Protocols in Longitudinal Self-reported Friendship Networks

NIPS 2015 Workshop on Social and Information Networks, 29th Annual International Conference on Neural Information and Processing Systems
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

We Click, We Align, We Learn: Impact of Influence and Convergence Processes on Student Learning and Rapport Building

Workshop on Modeling Interpersonal Synchrony, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
2015 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Capturing “attrition intensifying” structural traits from didactic interaction sequences of MOOC learners

Proceedings of the 2014 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Workshop on Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses
2014 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Experimental Analysis Based on Feature Engineering Techniques for Effective Polarity Identification on E-Commerce User Reviews

Information Journal (ISSN: 1344-8994), International Information Institute
2014 | Journal article
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Tanmay Sinha

Investigating substructures in goal oriented online communities: Case Study of Ubuntu IRC

4th IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC), India
2014 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Optimizing Packet Filtering Libraries for Scada System Security

International Journal of Enhanced Research In Science Technology & Engineering (IJERSTE), ISSN 2319-7463
2014 | Journal article
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Tanmay Sinha

Supporting MOOC instruction with social network analysis

arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5175
2014 | Journal article
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Tanmay Sinha

Together we stand, Together we fall, Together we win: Dynamic Team formation in Massive Open Online Courses

5th IEEE International Conference on Application of Digital Information & Web Technologies (ICADIWT), India
2014 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Who negatively influences me? Formalizing diffusion dynamics of negative exposure leading to student attrition in MOOCs

LTI Student Research Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University
2014 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Your click decides your fate: Inferring Information Processing and Attrition Behavior from MOOC Video Clickstream Interactions

Proceedings of the 2014 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Workshop on Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online Courses
2014 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Impact of Group Norms in Eliciting Response in a Goal Driven Virtual Community

21st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE)
2013 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Leveraging user profile attributes for improving pedagogical accuracy of learning pathways

3rd Annual International Conference on Education and E-learning, Singapore, August 2013
2013 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Proposal of a Social Network Analytic Framework to develop a better participation model for Online Education Platforms

International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008)
2013 | Journal article
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Tanmay Sinha

Trends and research directions for privacy preserving approaches on the cloud

Proceedings of the 6th ACM India Computing Convention
2013 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Turn on, tune in, drop out: Anticipating student dropouts in massive open online courses

Proceedings of the 2013 NIPS Data-driven education workshop
2013 | Conference paper
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Tanmay Sinha

Peer review (103 reviews for 27 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2)
Review activity for Applied cognitive psychology. (1)
Review activity for Asia Pacific journal of education. (1)
Review activity for BioScience (1)
Review activity for Computer science education. (2)
Review activity for Computers & education. (16)
Review activity for Computers and education. (1)
Review activity for IEEE RO-MAN. (1)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on affective computing. (1)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on learning technologies. (2)
Review activity for Instructional science. (13)
Review activity for Instructional science. (19)
Review activity for International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and workshops. (2)
Review activity for International journal of child-computer interaction. (1)
Review activity for International journal of computer-supported collaborative learning. (2)
Review activity for International journal of computer-supported collaborative learning. (3)
Review activity for International journal of educational technology in higher education. (10)
Review activity for Journal of computer assisted learning. (11)
Review activity for Journal of curriculum studies. (1)
Review activity for Journal of educational psychology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of learning analytics. (4)
Review activity for Learning and instruction (2)
Review activity for Learning and instruction. (1)
Review activity for Learning. (1)
Review activity for Scientific reports. (1)
Review activity for The journal of the learning sciences. (1)
Review activity for Thinking skills and creativity. (2)