Luc Paquette

Luc Paquette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Education. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Sherbrooke, where he focused on knowledge representations for intelligent tutoring systems, and later worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Teachers College, Columbia University using educational data mining techniques.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Sherbrooke

Professor Paquette specializes in analyzing student behaviors within digital learning environments using educational data mining, learning analytics, and knowledge engineering. His research spans emotions, self-regulated learning, collaborative learning, and debugging strategies in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, educational games, and online courses. Recent publications focus on sequential pattern mining, affect detection, and LLM-based educational tools.

His work has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award (2020) and appears in journals like the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics and Computers and Education. Collaborations include researchers like Yingbin Zhang, Nigel Bosch, and Ryan Baker, with applications in computer science education and science simulation microworlds.