PUBLICATIONS
In press
- Sikes, K., Pettit, N., Zarestky, J., Blanchard, N., Sreedharan, S. (Under Review). Am I asking the right question? Studying the Role of Assessment Questions in Adaptive Tutoring Systems. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium, Blue Sky, and WideAIED. AIED 2026.
2026
Conference Papers
Demo Papers
- Sikes, K., Keren, S., and Sreedharan, S. (2026). Reducing Goal State Divergence with Environment Design. In Main Technical Track at AAAI. (pdf)
Demo Papers
- Ananthakrishanan, H., Kokel, H., Sikes, K., Bhattacharjya, D., Katz, M., Sohrabi, S. & Srinivas, K. (2026). QueryGym: Step-by-Step Interaction with Relational Databases. In Demonstration Track at AAAI. (pdf)
2025
Conference Papers
Workshop Papers
- Sreedharan, S., Sikes, K., Blanchard, N., Mason, L., Krishnaswamy, N. & Zarestky, J. (2025). On the Role of Domain Experts in Creating Effective Tutoring Systems. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).
Workshop Papers
- Sikes, K., Fine-Morris, M., Sreedharan, S., Smith, L., and Roberts, M. (2025). Creating PDDL Models from Javascript using LLMs: Preliminary Results. In Workshop on Planning in the Era of LLMs at AAAI 2025. (pdf)
- Sikes, K. (2025). Reducing Goal State Divergence with Environment Design (pdf)
2024
Journal Papers
Workshop Papers
- Khebour, I., Brutti, R., Dey, I., Dickler, R., Sikes, K., Lai, K., Bradford, M., Cates, B., Hansen, P., Jung, C., Wisniewski, B., Terpstra, C., Hirshfield, L., Puntambekar, S., Blanchard, N., Pustejovsky, J., & Krishnaswamy, N. (2024). When Text and Speech are Not Enough: A Multimodal Dataset of Collaboration in a Situated Task. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10: 7, pp. 1–7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.168 (pdf)
Workshop Papers
- Sikes, K., Keren, S., and Sreedharan, S. (2024). Reducing Human-Robot Goal State Divergence with Environment Design. In Workshop on Task Specification for General-Purpose Intelligent Robots at RSS-24-W: TaskSpec. (pdf)
- Sikes, K., Keren, S., and Sreedharan, S. (2024). Reducing Human-Robot Goal State Divergence with Environment Design. In Workshop on Human-Aware and Explainable Planning at ICAPS 2024. (pdf)
- Sikes, K., Fine-Morris, M., Sreedharan, S., and Roberts, M. (2024). Traversing the Linguistic Divide: Aligning Semantically Equivalent Fluents Through Model Refinement. In Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling at ICAPS 2024. (pdf)
2023
Journal Papers
- Khebour, I., Brutti, R., Dey, I., Dickler, R., Sikes, K., Lai, K., Bradford, M., Cates, B., Hansen, P., Wisniewski, B., Terpstra, C., Hirshfield, L., Puntambekar, S., Blanchard, N., Pustejovsky, J., & Krishnaswamy, N. (2023). The Weights Task Dataset: A Multimodal Dataset of Collaboration in a Situated Task. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10. DOI: (pdf)
- Pickard, W., Sikes, K., Jamil, H., Chaffee, N., Blanchard, N., Kirby, M. & Peterson, C. (2023). Exploring fMRI RDMs: Enhancing Model Robustness Through Neurobiological Data. Frontiers in Computer Science. (pdf)