Robust and Improved Thoughtful AI 2025-2026

Students: Alina Sainju, Hannah Yoo, Kyle Houston, Monica Zhang | Advisor: Kenneth C. Arnold

Academic Year: 2025-2026 | Status: In Progress

HCI NLP Senior Project

Project Overview

Building upon the foundation established by the AI for Writers 2024-2025 project, our core objective for this academic year is to enhance the robustness, usability, and integration capabilities of the Thoughtful AI system for the Calvin University community as well as external research collaborators.

We envision a reliable writing tool that can serve as a valuable resource for the Calvin community as well as a platform that supports other AI researchers' visions. We believe that this Thoughtful AI project represents a meaningful step toward responsible stewardship of artificial intelligence.

Key Project Goals:

  • Comprehensive system testing
  • Backend pipeline improvement
  • Integration of a sample external tool as a starting point for future collaboration

Timeline

Fall 2025

Identify and fix currently visible bugs and known system vulnerabilities

Evaluate LLM responses using best practices

Spring 2026

Integrate a sample external writing tool within our system

Team

Alina Sainju

Alina Sainju

Team Member

Hannah Yoo

Hannah Yoo

Team Member

Kyle Houston

Kyle Houston

Team Member

Monica Zhang

Monica Zhang

Team Member

Faculty Advisor

Kenneth C. Arnold Dr. Kenneth C. Arnold

Advisor for the Thoughtful AI Lab and its associated senior projects at Calvin University.