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Irina Benedyk,
Assistant Professor
CSEE Department
University at Buffalo


Evolving Role of Mentorship
Are you an educator? What are your thoughts on Large Language Models , and AI technology in general, with respect to education? Do you think that soon (or very soon) you will be replaced? Have you tried NotebookLM AND guided learning from Google or OpenAI ? If not, try them and answer again. What do you think now? From books to AI New technologies have evolved human knowledge transfer before, slowly removing the need for constant and direct human-to-human connections du
birina
Aug 16, 20255 min read


Use of LLM Arena for easy to medium level engineering problems
The swift and widespread integration of Large Language Models into virtually every professional sector has created an immediate and critical need for their inclusion within university curricula. We need to incorporate them yesterday. Universities have an obligation to guide students on their path of ethically navigating this new technology, teaching them to critically evaluate AI-generated content, understand its inherent biases, and leverage it as a powerful tool for augme
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Jul 6, 20254 min read


Using LLM for grading
In academia, using AI for grading and providing a feedback seems like a reasonable next step. I suspect that AI will manage to grade and provide valid feedback for easy to medium level of difficulty calculation problems. If it can solve it, it can grade it, right? What if the problem is not a calculation assignment? We need to test it! Note, the privacy of my students is a major concern for me (even with the turn off button that instructs LLM not to save the information; a
birina
Mar 31, 20255 min read


If you embrace AI in your teaching…
As a professor from the engineering department, I feel that we may have an easier time adapting to the rise of generative AI compared to our colleagues in other areas. This is because we have faced similar paradigm shifts before in previous generations, navigating disruptions that fundamentally changed how we learn and how we work. Calculators came first... We saw it first with the introduction of calculators, which were initially feared as a crutch that would atrophy our me
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Sep 17, 20244 min read
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