Ola Ozernov-Palchik

Ola Ozernov-Palchik, PhD, is a research assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development and core faculty at the AI & Education Initiative. She is also a research scientist at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Dr. Ozernov-Palchik’s multi-disciplinary research centers on the cognitive neuroscience of language and literacy development, with a strong emphasis on translational work aimed at advancing learning for all students and promoting educational equity. Her recent line of research includes harnessing and advancing AI to create effective, personalized, and scalable tools for literacy.

Dr. Ozernov-Palchik employs advanced cross-disciplinary methods in her research, including neuroimaging, psycholinguistic experiments, and longitudinal methods. Currently, she is leading two large-scale projects. One project at MIT aims to characterize the longitudinal changes in neural and cognitive substrates of reading comprehension in children with dyslexia. The other project at BU aims to develop an open-source intelligent platform for large-scale multimodal educational data to improve early risk identification and treatment for students with disabilities.

In addition to her research, Dr. Ozernov-Palchik served as the program director for the Mind, Brain, and Education master’s program at Harvard Graduate School of Education and currently lectures there. She is an advocate for universal screening for early literacy and evidence-based literacy instruction, both locally and nationally. Dr. Ozernov-Palchik is a recipient of the prestigious Early Career Award from the International Dyslexia Association and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented at countless national and international conferences and meetings.

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