Iman Yeckehzaare
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIman Yeckehzaare is a research-driven software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience at the intersection of education, human-computer interaction, and collective intelligence. Currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence and Head of Research at Honor Education, she designs and runs online controlled experiments to improve student learning and motivation. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Michigan and has built production research tools—from Django/AWS study platforms and Wikipedia bots to an auto-grader and a spaced-repetition system contributed to the popular RunestoneInteractive project. As founder of 1Cademy she has led large-scale collaborative knowledge curation efforts, blending technical implementation with community-driven evaluation and improvement. Her work uniquely combines rigorous field experiments, open-source engineering, and scalable educational product design.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at University of Science and CultureKowsar High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science/Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Science/Studies at University of Michigan - School of InformationBachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology at Iran University of Science and Technology
Persian, English, Azerbaijani, French, Arabic
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RunestoneInteractive/RunestoneServer
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Interactive books for computer science and mathematics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Iman contributed to the implementation of a complete Spaced Repetition system by adding features to handle different types of questions, including multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and drag-and-drop. They made changes to the controllers and models to accommodate user interactions with the practice questions and implemented code to record students' interactions with the system. They also worked on creating models to capture days of completion of practice and displaying completion information to students, and integrating features to measure their motivation to practice.
crosswordsciencecomputer-algebra-systemmathematicsgame-theory
ImanYZ/RunestoneServer
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Interactive books for computer science
Contributions:92 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 9 months
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