TLDR: Talha Gulzar (MBA’25) and Assistant Professor Nada Hashmi from Babson College have been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the seventh annual New England Association for Information Systems (NEAIS) conference. Their winning paper, ‘Signals in the Prompt: Classifying Tone in Student–LLM Dialogues,’ explores the nuances of student interactions with large language models (LLMs) and their implications for educational practices. This marks the second consecutive year Hashmi has received recognition from NEAIS for her research.
Babson College is celebrating a significant academic achievement as Talha Gulzar (MBA’25) and Assistant Professor Nada Hashmi secured the Best Student Paper Award at the seventh annual New England Association for Information Systems (NEAIS) conference. The prestigious event, held last weekend at the University of Massachusetts Boston, recognized their groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence and education.
The award-winning paper, titled ‘Signals in the Prompt: Classifying Tone in Student–LLM Dialogues,’ delves into the critical area of student engagement with large language models. The research meticulously analyzes the underlying tone present in students’ AI prompts, offering valuable insights into how these interactions can be better understood and optimized. The paper further discusses the profound implications of these findings for developing ‘tone-aware’ tutoring systems and fostering course practices that actively encourage inquiry-oriented and reflective prompting among students.
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This latest accolade adds to Assistant Professor Nada Hashmi’s growing list of achievements. It is her second consecutive year being honored by NEAIS for her research contributions. Last year, she received the Best Paper Award for her work, ‘Teaching Programming with Generative AI Tools: Implications for Students with Different Learning Styles,’ co-authored with Zhi Li, Salvatore Parise, and Ganesan Shankaranarayanan. Beyond her work at Babson, Hashmi is also a research affiliate at MIT and was recently recognized on Poets & Quants’ esteemed list of 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors of 2024. The recognition of Gulzar and Hashmi underscores Babson College’s commitment to cutting-edge research and its impact on the evolving landscape of education and technology.
