Neil Heffernan

Who is Neil Heffernan?

Neil T. Heffernan is a professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is known for his role in the development of the ASSISTment software, which helps students learn mathematics even as it assesses their knowledge, and which is used by over 40000 students a year in the US. Technology developed by Heffernan has also been incorporated into Cognitive Tutor software developed by Carnegie Learning. He is widely published in intelligent tutoring systems, and educational data mining. His work gained prominence when a New York Times Magazine story by Annie Murphy Paul featured ASSISTments and Heffernan's research done with the tool.