Publications

2026

Implementation of a Metacognition Framework for Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation in Ensembles of LLMs

Charles Courchaine*, Ricky J. Sethi*, and Hefei Qiu
* Both authors contributed equally to this research

TheWebConf 2026 (The Web Conference) — Dubai, U.A.E. — Accepted

2025

Do LLMs Dream of Electric Emotions? Towards Quantifying Metacognition and Generalizing the Teacher-Student Model Using Ensembles of LLMs

Ricky J. Sethi, Hefei Qiu, Charles Courchaine, and Joshua Iacoboni

ACM CIKM 2025 (Conference on Information and Knowledge Management) — Seoul, South Korea

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🏆 Grants & Awards

Google Cloud Research Grant

Ricky J. Sethi (PI), Hefei Qiu (co-PI), Charles Courchaine (co-PI)

Received November 2025

Cloud computing credits to support the development and deployment of the MSV framework using Google Cloud infrastructure.

Related Work

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2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

Fuzzy Law: Towards Creating a Novel Explainable Technology-Assisted Review System for e-Discovery

C Courchaine, RJ Sethi

2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

Essential Computational Thinking: Computer Science from Scratch

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2020 Cognella Academic Publishing

Fact Checking Misinformation Using Recommendations from Emotional Pedagogical Agents

RJ Sethi, R Rangaraju, B Shurts

2019 Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)

Extinguishing the Backfire Effect: Using Emotions in Online Social Collaborative Argumentation for Fact Checking

RJ Sethi, R Rangaraju

2018 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)

Citation

@inproceedings{CourchaineSethi2026Implementation, title={Implementation of a Metacognition Framework for Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation in Ensembles of LLMs}, author={Courchaine, Charles and Sethi, Ricky J. and Qiu, Hefei}, booktitle={Proceedings of The Web Conference (TheWebConf)}, shortauthor = {Courchaine and Sethi et~al.}, year={2026}, organization={ACM}, note = {Both authors Charles Courchaine and Ricky J. Sethi contributed equally} }

@inproceedings{sethi2025llms, title={Do LLMs Dream of Electric Emotions? Towards Quantifying Metacognition and Generalizing the Teacher-Student Model Using Ensembles of LLMs}, author={Sethi, Ricky J. and Qiu, Hefei and Courchaine, Charles and Iacoboni, Joshua}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)}, year={2025}, organization={ACM} }

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