Irene-Angelica Chounta

Irene-Angelica Chounta holds a Professorship on Computational Methods in Modeling and Analysis of Learning Processes in the Department of Human-Centered Computing and Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen and she is the head of the research group colaps (https://www.uni-due.de/colaps/). Her research focuses on computational learning analytics (LA) for technology-enhanced learning (TEL), artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and educational technologies. Her main research interest is to model learners’ behavior in order to provide evidence-based, adaptive and personalized feedback, in a variety of contexts: from intelligent tutoring systems and computer-supported collaborative learning environments to hackathons and makerspaces, in 2019, she was awarded a four-year start-up grant from the Estonian Research Council for her research on “Combining machine learning and learning analytics to provide personalized scaffolding for computer-supported learning activities”. Irene was born and raised in Athens, Greece and studied in the University of Patras. She has lived and worked in USA (Carnegie Mellon University), Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen), and Estonia (University of Tartu). Currently, she serves as an expert consultant in topics about the use of Artificial Intelligence in Education for the Council of Europe and as a member of the Executive Board of the IAIED Society. In the past, she served as the Communications Co-Chair for the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), and she is an active member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).