Professors

Bruce McLaren

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Professor Bruce M. McLaren is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, directing the McLearn Lab. As a past President of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (2017-2019), he has passionately advanced the integration of technology in education. His research focuses on digital learning games, intelligent tutoring systems, and collaborative learning. Notably, his work with […]

Lei Shi

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

I am an associate professor in the Open Lab at Newcastle University. My research interest is improving interactions and efficiency between humans and AI by integrating HCI approaches with AI technologies that facilitate effective collaboration and co-creation. I am particularly interested in intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) that enable and advance productivity, adaptability, participation, diversity, inclusion, […]

Rebecca Ferguson

The Open University, United Kingdom

Rebecca Ferguson is a Professor in the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at The Open University in the UK, where she works on the Masters in Online and Distance Education (MAODE). Her primary research interests are educational futures and how people learn together online. She is lead author of the Innovating Pedagogy reports. This highly cited series of […]

Paul Prinsloo

University of South Africa (Unisa)

Paul Prinsloo is a Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in the Department of Business Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa (Unisa). He is a visiting professor at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), a Research Associate for Contact North/Contact Nord (Canada), a member of the Center […]

Antonio Dias de Figueiredo

University of Coimbra, Portugal

António Dias de Figueiredo is emeritus professor of Information Systems at the University of Coimbra, where his research is devoted to IT in Learning & Education, Research Methods, Science and Technology Studies, and Philosophy of Engineering and Design. He was Vice-President for Western Europe of the Intergovernmental Informatics Program of UNESCO and member of the […]

Amel Bennaceur

The Open University, United Kingdom

I’m Software Engineer, Researcher, and Educator with 14+ year experience doing research and development to make adaptive and intelligent systems trustworthy and assure their quality and resilience. Some featured projects includes:  Values@Runtime, Human-Robot collaboration, and Synthesis for the Internet of Things. I published 40+ papers in top journals and conferences (TSE, ISWC, Middleware, RE, ECSA) in […]

Dimitris Karampatzakis

International Hellenic University, Greece

Dr. Dimitris Karampatzakis is Assistant Professor (Analog and Digital Electronic Systems) at the Department of Computer Science – International Hellenic University, and Director of the Industrial and Educational Embedded Systems Lab. He holds a Eng. Diploma in Electronics and Computer Engineering from ECE – Technical University of Crete (2003) and a PhD in VLSI Systems […]

Stefan Hummel

DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany

Lukas Menzel

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Onur Karademir

DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Germany