Human-Machine Intelligent Systems Lab
The Lab's Work

Research

What follows is everything the lab has published or shown: peer-reviewed papers, conference posters, undergraduate research projects, and the occasional piece of software.

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Explainable AI

How can a machine show its reasoning, not just its answer? We work on visual and interactive tools that help students, teachers, and decision-makers see what is inside a model.

Developing Tools for AI Explainability

Michael Cummins, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2025

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Teaching & Learning

Our work sits at the intersection of learning science and software, producing intelligent tutoring systems, writing support tools, and course infrastructure that serves learners in classrooms.

The One-Shot Ceiling: Comparing RAG and Fine-Tuning Architectures for AI-Assisted Math Mentoring

Michael J. Cummins, William M. Mongan

Computer Science Honors Papers, Ursinus College2026

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RAG vs. Fine-Tuning in Math Education: Developing and Validating Mentir AI

Michael Cummins, Matt Latta, Claire Shoemaker, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2026

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Interactive AI Theater Presentation

Levi Fritz, Shannon Zura, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2026

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Instructional Judgment, Not Just Correctness: Evaluating AI-Generated Feedback on Student Mathematical Thinking

A. Reinsburrow, C. Yovanov, William M. Mongan, Michael Cummins, Matt Latta, W. Shumar, V. Klein, J. Silverman, S. Weimar

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 20262026

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The Ursinus WebIDE: A Serverless Browser-Based Development Environment for Student Practice and Rapid Instructor Exercise Development

Christopher Tralie, William M. Mongan

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2026)2026

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Post-It Pandemonium: Teaching Image Representation and Compression with an "Unplugged" Activity

William M. Mongan, Jeffrey L. Popyack

ACM SIGCSE 2019 Nifty Assignment2019

Biomedical ML

Machine learning where care actually happens: ECG, sleep, wearables, and the messy realities of clinical and lab data.

Minute and Subject-Level Sleep Apnea Detection Using an ECG-Based Machine Learning Pipeline

Andrei Bogdan, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2026

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Wireless, IoT, and Computer Vision

Lower-level systems work that supports the rest of what we do: secure IoT layers, sensor frameworks, and a few computer vision detours.

Automated Moon Crater Detection: Exploring Algorithmic and Neural Network Approaches

Dylan Melby, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2023

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RF IoT Security Layer

Jonas Ling, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2023

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UCPlaces: Campus Orientation App Using ArcGIS

Arthur Artene, Tristan Ashcroft, William M. Mongan

Ursinus Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA)2023

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drexelwireless/iot-sensor-framework: Public Release 1.0

William M. Mongan, Ilhaan Rasheed, Enioluwa Segun, Henry Dang, Victor S. Cushman, Charlie Rose Chiccarine, Kapil R. Dandekar, Adam K. Fontecchio

Zenodo2020

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