Symposium
Pittsburgh
February 2016
Symposium 2 Pittsburgh Attendees

Vincent Aleven
Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Bora Aytun
Co-founder, CEO, Chief Designer
MAVI

Jianhua Bai
Professor of Chinese / Director of Chinese School
Kenyon College / Middlebury College

Samantha Becker
Senior Director
New Media Consortium

Norman Bier
Director, Open Learning Objective
Carnegie Mellon University

David Bong
CEO
Avant Assessment

Peter Brusilovsky
Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Der-lin Chao
Professor and Head of Chinese Program
Hunter College, City University of New York

Yea-Fen Chen
Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Director, Chinese Flagship Center
Indiana University

R. Adam van Compernolle
Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition and French & Francophone Studies
Carnegie Mellon University

James Cook
Acting Director
University of Pittsburgh

Sabrina Culyba
Principal Designer
Schell Games

John DuQuette
Founder and CEO
Yabla Inc.

Houda El Joundi
Student of Chinese
Kenyon College

Andrew Goldstein
Founder and CEO
O3 Enterprises

Amy Heaton
Managing Director
Linchpin International, LLC

Trude Heift
Professor
Simon Fraser University

Michele Heryford
Assistant Director
Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

Chris Holden
Associate Professor
Honors College, University of New Mexico

Steven Hopkins
Flagship Student - Chinese Language, Finance, & International Business
Indiana University, Bloomington

Phil Ice
Chief Learning Officer
Mirum Learning

Ross Katz
Founder and CEO
Speak It LLC

Ayako Kuki
Student of Japanese
Kenyon College

Lori Levin
Langauge Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Diane Litman
Professor of Computer Science; Senior Scientist of Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh

Xiaofei Lu
Gil Watz Early Career Professor in Language and Linguistics and Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Tiara Luckiesh
Flagship Student - Russain Language
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Brian MacWhinney
Professor, Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

Margaret Malone
Associate Vice President, World Languages and International Programs
Center for Applied Linguistics

David Miller
Director of Learning
Kuato Studios

Dianna Murphy
Associate Professor
Russian Flagship Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael Nugent
Director
National Security Education Program (NSEP)

Scott Payne
Director of Academic Technology Services
McGraw-Hill Education

Ken Peterson
Technical Director
American Councils for International Education

Christine Poteau
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Alvernia University

Karen Price
Lecturer
Boston University

Elizabeth Pyatt
Instructional Designer
Penn State

Julio Rodriguez
Director, Center for Language & Technology, and National Foreign Language Resource Center
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Sae Schatz
Director
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative

Marc Siskin
Manager, Modern Language Resource Center
Carnegie Mellon University

Madeline K. Spring
Director, Chinese Flagship Program
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Reinhold Steinbeck
Design Innovation Specialist, Global Educator, Researcher, Entrepreneur
Co-Founder of IntoActions

Madeline Stockton
Student
University of Minnesota

Michael Stroucken
Principal Research Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University

Julie M. Sykes
Director
Center for Applied Second Language Studies, University of Oregon

Steven Thorne
Associate Professor
Portland State University

Jeff Wang
Director
China Learning Initiative, Asia Society

Amy Weinberg
Professor
University of Maryland

Nancy White
Facilitator
Full Circle Associates

Sue-mei Wu
Teaching Professor of Chinese Studies & Faculty MA in Applied Second Language Acquisition
Carnegie Mellon University

Bonnie Youngs
Teaching Professor of French & Francophone Studies
Carnegie Mellon University
Reflections
Dr. Jianhua Bai and Dr. Christine Poteau Professor at Kenyon College and Assistant Professor at Temple University
John DuQuette Founder and CEO of Yabla Inc.
Houda El Joundi Student at Kenyon College
Madeline Stockton Student at University of Minnesota
Dr. Julie M. Sykes Director of CASL at University of Oregon
Jeff Wang Director of China Learning Initiative at Asia Society