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Simon Buckingham Shum

Director &
Professor of Learning Informatics
[CIC News]

“Liminal Space… when you have left the tried and true but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. If you are not trained in how to hold anxiety, how to live with ambiguity, how to entrust and wait, you will run… anything to flee this terrible cloud of unknowing.” – Richard Rohr

Ruth Deakin Crick

Visiting Professor of Learning Analytics & Educational Leadership
[CIC News]

“Scaffolding a learning journey when the outcome isn’t known in advance is the big challenge for educators in the 21st Century.”

Kirsty Kitto

Associate Professior (Data Science)
[CIC News]

“I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” – Richard Feynman

Lisa-Angelique Lim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
[CIC News]

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

Alireza Ahadi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
[CIC News]

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus

Ágnes Sándor

Adjunct Fellow
[CIC News]

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

Jurgen Schulte

Adjunct Fellow
[CIC News]

 

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Theresa Anderson

Adjunct Fellow 
[CIC News]

“Harnessing imagination and intuition alongside high-powered computational and analytical capacities is the way to generate inventive and value-sensitive data insights.”

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Kailash Awati

Adjunct Fellow
[CIC News]

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of data, decisions and algorithms—
Of multiple meanings…”

Doctoral Candidates

 

Leonie Payne

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind” – Johannes Brahms

Ben Hicks

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong” – (common paraphrasing of) H.L. Mencken

Yuveena Gopalan

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“All models are wrong but some are useful.” – George Box

Sriram ‘Ram’ Ramanathan

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.” – Albert Bandura

Tommaso Armstrong

PhD Student
[CIC News]

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Professional Team

 

Gabrielle Gardiner

Senior Manager
[CIC News]

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” – Winnie The Pooh

Andrey Inkin

Full Stack Developer
[CIC News]

“Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
– The King of Hearts

Chris Martin

Specialist Solution Engineer
[CIC News]

“ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Authur C Clark

 

Blaise Pereira

Administrative Assistant
[CIC News]

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world” – Mahatma Gandhi

 

Alumni

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Simon Knight

Research Fellow (Writing Analytics)
[CIC News]

“Thinking about how we find and evidence knowledge is what drives my research.”

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Andrew Gibson

Research Fellow (Reflective Writing Analytics)
[CIC News]

“Exploring the boundary between the human and machine worlds, and making “the best of the ignorance that one chances to be in” – John Woods

 

Ran Ding

Administrative Assistant
[CIC News]

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”- Albus Dumbledore

Michael Pracy

Data Scientist
[CIC News]

“I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.”
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
Ming Liu - Research Fellow (Educational Data Science)

Ming Liu

Research Fellow (Educational Data Science)
[CIC News]

“The goal of innovation isn’t how to change education, but how education can change the world.” -Nathan Lang, Ed.D.

Ratha Ang

Administration Assistant
[CIC News]

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
– Marcus Aurelius

Jack Schmidt

Marketing Officer
[CIC News]

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson

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Michelle Gubanyi

Marketing Officer
[CIC News]

“Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort” – Jeff Bullas

Roberto Maldonado Martinez

Research Fellow (Educational Data Science)
[CIC News]

“Data storytelling is the bridge between humans and data science. What is more human than art and telling stories?”

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Shibani Antonette

PhD Student (Learning Analytics)
[CIC News]

“It’s not about the technology, but how it impacts educational practice.”

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Carlos Prieto

PhD Student (Learning Analytics)
[CIC News]

“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”- Thomas Edison

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Vanessa Echeverria Barzola

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.” – Daniel Kahneman

Radhika Mogarkar

Applications Developer
[CIC News]

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – Leonardo da Vinci

Aleksandr Gromov

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“That’s mortals for you. They’ve only got a few years in this world and they spend them all making things complicated for themselves. Fascinating. ” – Death

Max Kulinich

Data Scientist
[CIC News]

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

Andrei Maslennikov

CIC Programmer
[CIC News]

“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Mahesh Jeshani

UI/ UX Developer
[CIC News]

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
 

Rianne

PhD Endeavour Scholar
[CIC News]

“In a world full of data, it is incredibly inspiring and also necessary to collect, analyze, interpret, and utilize these data with humans in the loop.”

Bikalpa

PhD Endeavour Scholar
[CIC News]

“Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying” – Red (Shawshank)

 

Sophie Abel

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

Gloria Fernandez Nieto

PhD Student
[CIC News]

“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving. ” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Joseph Jung

Front End Developer
[CIC News]

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs

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Georgia Markakis

Business Development Officer
[CIC News]

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius

 

Minduli Withana

Administrative Assistant
[CIC News]

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”- Albus Dumbledore
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