Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Education. He also serves as the Director of Research at Cascade Reading, where he works full-time. Dempsey earned his PhD in Educational Psychology and focuses on understanding text comprehension mechanisms to advance educational technologies globally.

• Expertise: Eye-tracking research, behavioral task analysis, machine learning in education
• Courses: EPSY 401 (Child Language and Education), EPSY 201 (Educational Psychology)

His research investigates how humans comprehend grammatical structures and discourse through eye-tracking and behavioral tasks, employing advanced modeling techniques. Recent work explores:

• Grammatical comprehension in multilingual contexts
• Eye movement patterns during programming code reading
• Syntactic adaptation and discourse-sentence interactivity
• Contextual biases in language processing

Dempsey emphasizes communicating scientific findings to broad audiences and has contributed to both educational technology development and psycholinguistic research.