Research

Publications & Posters

Modeling Student Knowledge Progression Across Concepts in Intelligent Tutoring Interactions
Kanav Mittal, Abigail O’Neill, Hanna Schlegel, Gireeja Ranade, and Narges Norouzi.
Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2025. [paper]

Improving Tissue-Specific Expression Prediction of Sequence-to-Function Models
Kanav Mittal, Ruchir Rastogi, and Nilah Ioannidis.
Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB), 2025. [short paper] [poster]

Exploring Hierarchical Models for Gene Expression Prediction from Sequence
Kanav Mittal, Ruchir Rastogi, and Nilah Ioannidis.
Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB), 2024. [short paper] [poster]

Theses

Alignment Challenges in Educational AI
Kanav Mittal (advisor: Gireeja Ranade). Master’s thesis, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2026. [thesis]

Methods to Improve Prediction of Gene Expression from Noncoding Regulatory DNA Sequence
Kanav Mittal. Senior honors thesis (advisor: Nilah Ioannidis), EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2025. [thesis]