Gautam Yadav · Senior Learning Engineer at Carnegie Mellon
I design and build technical learning experiences, from hands-on AI workshops to professional certificate programs. I work with subject-matter experts and use learner research and data to guide what we build and improve.
Four examples of how I connect learner needs, design decisions, and working experiences.
AI education · Workshop and interactive lesson
Help professionals move from knowing about agent skills to building and testing one for their own work.
The live lesson asks for an email to save progress.
Learning design · Professional education
Make learning science, analytics, and AI useful to professionals with different goals and levels of experience.
Learning design · Intelligent tutoring
Help learners connect algebraic procedures to the meaning of each equation-solving step.
UX research · Authoring tools
Make it easier for educators to author tutoring activities, solution paths, and targeted feedback.
I study how practice and feedback support learning, then use those findings to improve the experiences I build.
In Beyond Repetition, we found that varied questions supported better generalization to unseen questions than repeated practice. This informs how I design assessment variety and opportunities for explanatory feedback.
Gautam Yadav, Paulo F. Carvalho, Elizabeth A. McLaughlin, and Kenneth R. Koedinger · Learning @ Scale, 2024
I’m a learning engineer with a background in computer science and applied learning science. My work spans the decisions that shape a learning experience and the development needed to make it usable.
At Carnegie Mellon, I partner with faculty and professional audiences to define learning needs, align practice with objectives, and build courses and tools. I also standardize production workflows and use AI to support assessment review and instructional alignment.
I start with what learners need to do, investigate where they struggle, and use that evidence to decide what to design, test, and revise.
Senior Learning Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University
November 2022–present
Learning Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University
September 2020–November 2022
M.S. Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science
Carnegie Mellon University
B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering
IIIT Jabalpur
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