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Derican/README.md

👋 Hi, I’m Derican

🎓 Researcher–builder at the intersection of learning sciences and AI

I study student modeling and simulation, with a focus on how heterogeneous educational data — dialogue, behavioral logs, questionnaires, and classroom interactions — can be integrated to represent learner characteristics and developmental trajectories.

🧠 Research interests

LLM-based student agents & agent-based modeling

Individual-level behavior simulation

Learning processes reflected in dialogue and interaction data

Interpretability and theoretical alignment in AI systems

Epistemic boundaries of generative models in education

🔬 My perspective

Rather than treating AI as a black-box predictor, I focus on what can — and cannot — be meaningfully simulated at the level of individual learners. My work explores the tension between observable behavior, latent constructs, and language-based representations of cognition. Reach my work through ArXiv!

🛠️ Also a system builder

Alongside research, I design and implement full-stack educational systems, including asynchronous task orchestration, progress tracking, and real-time feedback pipelines — examining how technical architecture and theoretical assumptions co-evolve in AI-supported learning environments. Checkout Feedforward System and several tools on PyPI!

🌱 Beyond research

When I’m not working on models or systems, I enjoy:

🏀 Basketball, badminton or swimming

📱 Clash Royale

💻 The Binding of Isaac, Mahjong Soul


Reach me or my team through personal email, ffs_tech or feal_tech.

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    Forked from Iskallia/Vault-public-S1

    👾 A mod that adds the mystic vaults for Vault Hunters modpack. (Public port of the Livestream version)

    Java 2

  2. infinite-lava-fabric infinite-lava-fabric Public

    Java 1

  3. pretty-schedule pretty-schedule Public

    JavaScript

  4. 614AC/INTQ 614AC/INTQ Public

    Java 2

  5. mseq2latex mseq2latex Public

    Python

  6. officemath2latex officemath2latex Public

    Python