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Rachel Slama is the Associate Director of the Future of Learning Lab under Associate Professor Rene Kizilcec at Cornell University's Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. She co-leads the National Tutoring Observatory, a multi-institutional initiative leveraging large language models (LLMs) to advance human and AI tutoring systems. Based in Boston, she serves on Governor Healey’s Massachusetts Task Force on Education and Training for Workforce Development as part of the AI Hub.
Her research focuses on technology's role in accelerating learning in dynamic educational and workforce contexts. Prior roles include Director of the Labor and Workforce Development portfolio at RAND (leading AI and workforce programs), rotator program director at NSF, and Associate Director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. She holds a doctorate in Education Policy from Harvard University as an Ambach Fellow.
Key projects include designing AI-driven educational tools, analyzing tutor-student dialogue patterns, and advancing equitable workforce training systems. Her work bridges academic research with practical applications in edtech, policy, and industry collaboration.
