Ryan Baker is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics. His lab conducts research on engagement and robust learning within online and blended learning, seeking to find actionable indicators that can be used today but which predict future student outcomes. Baker has developed models that can automatically detect student engagement in over a dozen online learning environments, and has led the development of an observational protocol and app for field observation of student engagement that has been used by over 150 researchers in 7 countries. Predictive analytics models he helped develop have been used to benefit over a million students, over a hundred thousand people have taken MOOCs he ran, and he has coordinated longitudinal studies that spanned over a decade. He was the founding president of the International Educational Data Mining Society, is currently serving as Editor of the journal Computer-Based Learning in Context, is Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining, was the first technical director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center DataShop, and currently serves as Co-Director of the MOOC Replication Framework (MORF). Baker has co-authored published papers with over 300 colleagues.
Abstract：TBA
Tom
Crick is Professor of Digital &
Policy and Deputy Pro-Vice
Chancellor (Civic Mission) at
Swansea University. He holds a joint
research and innovation appointment
split between the Department of
Education & Childhood Studies
(Faculty of Humanities & Social
Sciences), and the £32m
Computational Foundry (Department of
Computer Science, Faculty of Science
& Engineering). Whilst his
disciplinary background is in
computer science, his academic
interests sit at the research/public
policy interface with a focus on
broad societal/policy impact:
STEM/digital education, curriculum
reform, science and innovation
policy, data science, intelligent
systems, smart cities, national
infrastructure, software
sustainability, digital
transformation, and
skills/infrastructure for the
digital/data economy. As
underpinning themes, his broader
research interests also include
levers for government innovation,
digital public services, new
economic models for the digital
economy, digital democracy, and
citizen/civic/public engagement.
Tom also has extensive independent
expert advisory, non-executive
governance and assurance experience,
across the public and private
sectors, including Welsh and UK
Government roles (see below).
He is Editor-in-Chief of The
Computer Journal (2021-present), one
of the longest-established journals
(since 1958) serving all branches of
the academic computer science
community, published by Oxford
University Press. Tom is also an
Editor of the Wales Journal of
Education/Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru
(2020-present), a bilingual platinum
open access journal published by the
University of Wales Press.
Tom was appointed MBE in the 2017
Queen’s Birthday Honours for
“services to computer science and
the promotion of computer science
education”. In 2020, he was made a
Fellow of the Learned Society of
Wales, the national academy for
science and the arts. He is also a
Chartered Fellow of the BCS and the
IET, and a Distinguished Speaker and
Senior Member of the ACM.
Abstract：TBA
Prof. Yudong Zhang worked as a postdoc from 2010 to 2012 with Columbia University, USA, and as an Assistant Research Scientist from 2012 to 2013 with the Research Foundation of Mental Hygiene (RFMH), USA. He served as a Full Professor from 2013 to 2017 with Nanjing Normal University. Now he serves as a professor at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK. His research interests include deep learning and medical image analysis. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of EAI, and Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, IES, and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was included in Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Computer Science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was the 2019 & 2021 recipient of Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate. He won the Emerald Citation of Excellence 2017 and MDPI Top 10 Most Cited Papers 2015. He is included in Top Scientist in Research.com. He has (co)authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles in the journals JAMA Psychiatry, Inf Fus, IEEE TFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE IoTJ, Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TCSS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE Sensors J, ACM TKDD, ACM TOMM, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE JTEHM, ACM TMIS, etc. There are more than 50 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 ESI Hot Papers in his (co)authored publications.
Abstract：TBA