Ruikun Hou
Research Assistant, PhD Student
Room: 246
Office Hours: by Appointment
Tel.: +49 89 289 24334
E-Mail: ruikun.hou[at]tum[dot]de
Career Development
- 2014 - 2018: B.Sc. in Vehicle Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- 2019 - 2021: M.Sc. in Automation Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- 2022 - Present: PhD candidate at the University of Tübingen and TU Munich, Germany
Research Interests
- Machine Learning / Computer Vision / Deep Learning
- Classroom Observation / Teaching Quality / Teacher Training
Publications
- Hou, R., Bühler, B., Fütterer, T., Bozkir, E., Gerjets, P., Trautwein, U., & Kasneci, E. (2025). Multimodal Assessment of Classroom Discourse Quality: A Text-Centered Attention-Based Multi-Task Learning Approach. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07902
- Hou, R., Fütterer, T., Bühler, B., Bozkir, E., Gerjets, P., Trautwein, U., & Kasneci, E. (2024). Automated assessment of encouragement and warmth in classrooms leveraging multimodal emotional features and ChatGPT. In 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 60–74). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64302-6_5
- Bühler, B., Hou, R., Bozkir, E., Goldberg, P., Gerjets, P., Trautwein, U., & Kasneci, E. (2023). Automated hand-raising detection in classroom videos: A view-invariant and occlusion-robust machine learning approach. In 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 102-113). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36272-9_9
- Jang, W., Hou, R., Gao, H., & Kasneci, E. (2024, November). Analyzing Communication Logs in Pair Programming: A Comparison of Human-and LLM-Based Approaches. In 21st International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET61869.2024.10837662
Outreach Activities
- EDM 2025 Society Travel Scholarship and Professor Ramkumar Memorial Scholarship
- Member of EARLI EFG-13
- AIED 2024 Scholarship
- Virtualization Chair at ETRA 2023