B.S., University of Michigan, 1980
M.S., in Mathematics, University of Michigan, 1982
M.S., in Computer, Information and Control Engineering, University of Michigan, 1982
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989

Carol Luckhardt Redfield joined St. Mary’s in 1998 after having been in industry for more than a dozen years. Including summer jobs at Bell Labs, LLNL, and IBM, she worked in artificial intelligence as a Senior Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute and as a Senior Scientist at Mei Technology Corporation. She has taught mathematics and computer science since 1980 at various universities, including the University of Michigan, UTSA, and St. Phillips College.

She has volunteered for the San Antonio Space Society and Friends Meeting of San Antonio; brought Landmark Education courses to San Antonio, founded a charter school in the city; and chaired conferences, including the 10th International Space Development Conference in 1991, Intelligent Tutoring Systems in 1998, and Artificial Intelligence in Education in 2001. Redfield was inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame for the 1992 Science category, given the Alice Wright Franzke Feminist Award in 2007, and received the Distinguished Faculty Award for 2008-2009 from St. Mary’s Graduate School. She is married to an engineer and has two children.

Her research interests include artificial intelligence, expert systems/knowledge engineering, educational software, and game/computer-based training/intelligent tutoring, eLearning, game development, and search engine optimization.