The International AI in Education Society has been active for over 30 years, starting in 1993.

Past Presidents of the IAIED Society

• 1993-1995 John Self, University of Lancaster, UK
• 1995-1997 Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1997-1999 Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• 1999-2001 Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA
• 2001-2003 Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
• 2003-2005 Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh, UK
• 2005-2007 Jim Greer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• 2007-2009 Art Graesser, University of Memphis, USA
• 2009-2011 Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
• 2011-2013 Jack Mostow, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• 2013-2015 Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, NZ
• 2015-2017 Ben du Boulay, University of Sussex, UK
• 2017-2019 Bruce McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• 2019-2021 Rosemary Luckin, University College London, UK
• 2021-2023 Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
• 2023-2025 Olga C. Santos, UNED, Spain

Past Executive members of the IAIED Society IAIED Executive members are elected every 2 years and serve for a period of 6 years. Following is a list of the members by the time their service ends. From the IAIED Society we acknowledge the time and dedication of each of these members, who are part of the IAIED History and help to grow the Society.

-End in 2029

• Noboru Matsuda, North Carolina State University, USA
• Min Chi, North Carolina State University, USA
• Alexandra Cristea, University of Durham, UK
• Neil Hefferman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Andrew Olney, University of Memphis, USA
• Irene-Angelica Chounta, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Beverly Park Woolf, University of Massachusetts, USA
• Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil

-End in 2027

• Bruce M. McLaren, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Diego Zapata, Educational Testing Service, USA
• Erin Walker, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Seiji Isotani, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

-End in 2025

• Akihiro Kashihara, University of Electro Communications, Japan
• Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA
• Cristothea Herodotou, The Open University, UK
• Jeanine A Defalco, University of New Haven, USA
• Judith Masthoff, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Mercedes T. (Didith) Rodrigo, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
• Ning Wang, University of Southern California, USA
• Olga C. Santos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
• Rawad Hammad, University of East London, UK
• Zitao Liu, Jinan University, China

-Ended in 2023

• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, University College London, UK
• Manolis Mavrikis, University College London, UK
• Min Chi, North Carolina State University, USA
• Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Ryan S.J.d Baker, University of Pennsylvania, USA

-Ended in 2021

• Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Amy Ogan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Noboru Matsuda, North Carolina State University, USA
• Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Rose Luckin, University College London, UK
• Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK

-Ended in 2019

• Tiffany Barnes, North Carolina State University, USA
• Ricardo Conejo, University of Malaga, Spain
• Sidney D’Mello, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
• Zachary Pardos, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Ido Roll, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Erin Walker, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Kalina Yacef, University of Sydney, Australia

-Ended in 2017

• Ryan S.J.d Baker, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK
• Critsina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, Canada

-Ended in 2015

• Benedict du Boulay, University of Sussex, UK
• Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Joseph E. Beck, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
• H. Chad Lane, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Chee-Kit Looi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Rose Luckin, University College London, UK
• Antonija (Tanja) Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

-Ended in 2013

• Jacqueline Bourdeau, Télé-université, Canada
• TakWai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
• Ricardo Conejo, University of Malaga, Spain
• Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Jack Mostow, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Beverly Woolf, University of Massachusetts, USA

History of IJAIED Journal Editors

• 2024-2027, Marcus Specth, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• 2024-2027, Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada
• 2013-2025, Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• 2013-2024, Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
• 2009-2012, James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
• 2003-2008, Paul Brna, University of Glasgow, UK
• 2002-2022, Benedict du Boulay, University of Sussex, UK
• 1997-2002, John Self, University of Lancaster, UK (International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education)
• 1997-1997, Gary Marks, AACE, USA (Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education)
• 1989-1996, John Self, University of Lancaster, UK (Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education)

History of IAIED Officers

-Technology & Outreach Officer

• 2025-2027, Jionghao Lin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 2022-2025, Yancy Vance Paredes, North Carolina State University, USA.

-Science Communication Officers

• 2022-2024, Son T. H. Pham, Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.
• 2023-2025, Miguel Portaz, UNED, Spain

Lifetime Achievement Awards

"The AIED Lifetime Achievement Award is given to members of the international AIED community who throughout their careers have substantially advanced the science and engineering of intelligent human-technology ecosystems that support learning."

2018 John Self, University of Lancaster, UK - One of the founders of AIED and the first IAIED President (1993-1995). Conducted seminal research in student modeling, open learner models, and foundational issues.

2021 Art Graesser, University of Memphis, USA - A leader in AI in Education for over three decades and and IAIED President from 2007-2009. His contributions are fundamental to dialog-based intelligent tutoring systems, question asking and answering, human tutoring, memory, emotions, computational linguistics, and virtual agents.

2023 Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia - President of IAIED from 2009-2011 and currently Editor-in-Chief of IJAIED. She has pioneered a number of innovative ideas to make AIED systems human-centric, which led to long-standing research streams, e.g. scruitability and open learner modelling, lifelong learner modelling, personalised learning for health and wellbeing.