Openings

Doctoral students

Dr. Proctor advises doctoral students in the Graduate School of Education's Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning PhD program Learning Sciences track. Applications for fall 2025 admission are due January 1. If you are potentially interested in beginning a PhD with Dr. Proctor in a future year, please email Dr. Proctor. We would love to invite you to join a lab meeting, or to chat with a current student.

Lab assistants

Dr. Proctor is currently hiring graduate and undergraduate students with programming skills to work on Unfold Studio full-time during the winter break in January 2025.

The pay is $20/hr starting Jan 6 until the start of the semester, with the potential for work to continue into the Spring 2025 semester.

Unfold Studio is a web application for reading and writing interactive stories, used in middle- and high-school CS and English/Language Arts classes in several US states and overseas. Unfold Studio allows users to write interactive stories in a programming language called Ink, and to interact with one another via common social media affordances.

Unfold Studio is set to be used for a national AI writing competition and the team will be focused on ensuring the infrastructure is ready for it. This includes performance and scalability testing, deployment, and content moderation. The project will also involve building relevant features, both on the front and back end, and studying user interactions and implementing analytics. Other tasks would include bug fixing, code refactors, maintaining compliance with child privacy laws, and technical documentation.

Skills: Experience in Python. Knowledge of Django and Postgres is a bonus. Any experience with performance profiling, scaling, and DevOps is also appreciated