Dr. Chi earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in the Intelligent System Program from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and Human Sciences and the Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. Her research has focus on applying and developing various machine learning and data mining algorithms especially reinforcement learning to improve and understand human learning. It was mainly done mining various human-computer interactive sequential log files collected from when they interacting educational software such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Dialogue tutoring systems. In recent years, she also expanded her research areas to other datasets including e-commerce (like Amazon) and healthcare data. Her research has been mainly funded by National Science Foundation(NSF).