Neil Heffernan Scientist

Neil T. Heffernan (born 1970 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is known for his role in the development of the ASSISTments service, which helps students learn mathematics even as it assesses their knowledge, and which is used by over 40000 students a year in the US. He is widely published in intelligent tutoring systems, and educational data mining. His work gained prominence when a New York Times Magazine story by Annie Murphy Paul featured ASSISTments and Heffernan's research done with the tool.