Closing the Loop: Scaling Personalized Education with AI-Driven Knowledge Graphs

Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Charles Elliott, Senior Research Engineering Lead at Google; Sara Wiltberger, Senior Product Manager at Google; Shashank Agarwal, Software Engineer at Google Research; and Anisha Choudhary, Program Manager at Google Research.The speakers discussed how the promise of personalized education has long been constrained by the difficulty of systematically identifying and mapping an individual’s knowledge gaps at scale. They explored how systems that understand students’ learning goals, track their progress, and help remediate knowledge gaps are needed to realize this vision.Google Cloud and Google Research shared the technical architecture of their knowledge graphs, which mapped complex relationships between learning objectives and educational standards. They also demonstrated how AI was leveraged in Learn Your Way, Google Skills, and Gemini Enterprise to generate targeted assessments and real-time remediations, effectively bridging knowledge gaps as they arose.