Ivon Arroyo

A true hybrid across disciplines, Professor Ivon Arroyo specializes in learning sciences, computer science, and educational/cognitive psychology. Her expertise is in the design of novel technologies for learning and assessment for K-12 students studying mathematics. She joined the faculty of UMass Amherst in 2020, with a split appointment between the College of Education and the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, after teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for ten years. She directs the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab at the College of Education (see news from the lab).

Arroyo has served as PI or co-PI on more than 20 research projects involving the design, development, and research of advanced learning technologies for K–12 and higher education. She has been supported on these projects by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Gates Foundation, and seed funding awards from UMass Amherst. She has over 20 years of experience in STEM learning software research and development, within academia. She has also been part of the MathSpring.org software development team since its inception circa year 2000: the software contains about 1,000 mathematics word problems mapped to Common Core Standards.

Arroyo has served as an editorial board member for the Journal of AI in Education for many years, and as a board member of the User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction Society. She has been a reviewer for conferences in Learning Sciences and Learning Technologies, as well as journals including Journal of the Learning Sciences, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal on Educational Data Mining, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, and Metacognition & Learning.

Arroyo has authored or co-authored over 100 publications (journal papers, book chapters and research articles at prestigious conferences) and is well-cited. She has been the first author of two papers receiving Best Paper Awards—from the 2010 International Conference on Educational Data Mining and the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education—and nominated for others several times. She was given a CAREER award by NSF in 2014.