Erin Walker is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, with appointments in the School of Computing and Information and the Learning Research and Development Center. She completed her PhD in HumanComputer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Her research uses interdisciplinary methods to improve the design and implementation of educational technology, and to understand when and why it is effective. She works on projects that incorporate social and contextual adaptation into learning environments, including implementing a teachable robot for mathematics learning and developing an intelligent tutoring system to help parents and children read together. Walker’s work has resulted in many journal articles and peerreviewed full conference papers, including a best paper award at Creativity and Cognition and award nominations at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Artificial Intelligence in Education, and ComputerSupported Collaborative Learning conferences. She was named to Phoenix Magazine’s 40 under 40 list in 2018.