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Peter Foltz is Vice President at Pearson where he directs research and development on new technologies for education and assessment. Dr. Foltz co-founded Knowledge Analysis Technologies in 1998 which was acquired by Pearson in 2004. His research has focused on learning, language comprehension, machine learning, natural language processing and technologies for educational assessment. He was an early pioneer of applications of Latent Semantic Analysis and developed techniques for information filtering, automated essay scoring and automated clinical assessment. He also lead the framework development for OECD's PISA 2015 assessment on collaborative problem solving. He has authored over 80 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and other publications and holds a patent for automated scoring technology. Dr. Foltz has a Ph.D. and Masters in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He previously worked at Bell Communications Research, The Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh and as a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology at New Mexico State University.