Experience

Research Fellow

School of Education, Adelaide University

Lead a research program at the intersection of learning analytics and AI in education, and lead MagpieMatrix — an AI platform that captures collaborative problem-solving skills and learning dispositions in real time from classroom interaction, and feeds evidence back to teachers. Deploying into schools across South Australia, with collaborators testing in the Netherlands.

Research Fellow

Education Futures, University of South Australia

Principal Investigator on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project ($494,455 AUD), leading R&D of learning analytics and AI tools for dynamic learner profiles, including the Learner Information Framework. Course coordinator across three education courses.

Research Associate

Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), University of South Australia

Curriculum analytics and employable-skills mapping with LLMs.

Data Scientist

Teaching Innovation Unit, University of South Australia

Learning analytics for course design and academic integrity in first-year engineering.

Education

PhD in Information Technology

University of South Australia

Team cohesion in technology-mediated learning: the methods and analytics that make team behaviour visible to teachers.

BSc (Honours) in Information Technology

University of South Australia

BSc in Information Technology

University of South Australia

Minors in Data Analytics and Business.
Service & Leadership

Governance

  • Executive Committee Member, Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) — 2025–2027
  • Proceedings Chair, International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (LAK) — 2023–2026
  • Editorial Board (Early Career Researcher), British Journal of Educational Technology — 2023–present
  • Board Review Member, Journal of Learning Analytics (SoLAR) — 2024–present

Leadership

  • Industry lead, R&D project on in-situ development of team dynamics — 2026
  • Adelaide School of AI, Data and Learning — 2026
  • CSIRO ON Prime: led a team through the 9-week research-translation program — 2025
  • C3L Events and Communication Working Group Lead — 2025

Peer review

Journals: Computers & Education · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning · British Journal of Educational Technology · Journal of Learning Analytics · Learning Letters

Conferences: LAK · AIED · EDM · EC-TEL · LEA

Supervision

Currently co-supervising one PhD candidate; one PhD completed (2025), plus research scholarship students and interns at UniSA and C3L.

Research Funding & Awards
Harnessing the Power of AI in Education — A$494,455
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (with Human Systems Inc.) ∙ January 2024
Principal Investigator. Balancing data use, interventions and privacy — R&D of learning analytics and AI tools supporting dynamic learner profiles, delivered as the Learner Information Framework. Work presented at the foundation’s Seattle HQ.
Visit the Learner Information Framework
Accelerating Foundation Models Research (AFMR) — A$24,000
Microsoft ∙ January 2025
Competitive global program. Azure credits that built large language models — and next, AI agents — into the platform, producing the first LLM-based validation study of collaborative problem-solving assessment.
Watch — Promoting & Assessing Human Skills with GenAI
Early Career Researcher Seeding Grant — A$5,000
Education Futures, University of South Australia ∙ January 2025
Principal Investigator.
Early Career Researcher Seeding Grant — A$5,000
University of Wollongong ∙ December 2025
Collaborative Investigator.
Research Scholarship (Vacation) — A$3,600
Data Analytics Group, University of South Australia ∙ January 2017
School of Education Event Grant — A$3,000
Adelaide University ∙ January 2026
Principal Investigator.
CSIRO ON Prime — A$2,000
CSIRO ∙ January 2025
Led a team through the 9-week research-translation program. Forty-two stakeholder interviews with teachers, parents, regulators and policymakers.
CSIRO ON Prime alumni profile
Undergraduate Enterprise Resource Prize — A$2,000
SA Power Networks ∙ January 2019
MAC Safe Travel Award — A$1,000
GovHack ∙ January 2017
Best Final Year ICT Project Presentation — A$50
University of South Australia ∙ January 2018