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Gist of LAK 22 paper

In July, I was invited to speak at an Australia India InnovEd Forum on Generative AI – Rethinking Learning Futures hosted by the Australia India Institute. The forum ran as an online webinar where speakers from India and Australia shared their thoughts on the evolving role of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT in ...

I attended the prestigious Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conference CHI’24 at Hawaii, Honolulu in May 2024. While I’m quite familiar with the field of HCI, it was my first time attending the conference because it is much wider than my main area of research (Learning Analytics, AI in education, and Writing Analytics). The sheer scale ...

I’ve had a longstanding interest in exploring how students engage critically with automated feedback and develop their AI literacy. In our LAK22 paper, we argued why it is so important that we develop these skills in learners. There is a heightened necessity in today’s educational landscape for learners in the age of generative AI (Gen ...

On Wednesday, I received the ‘2023 Learning and Teaching Citation’ from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) for nurturing well-rounded data science professionals. UTS citations and awards recognise significant and sustained contributions to student learning, student engagement, and the student experience by individuals or teams. Earlier this week, I also ...

Next week, I’m presenting my work in the First workshop onGenerative AI for Learning Analytics (GenAI-LA) at the 14th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge LAK 2024: Antonette Shibani, Faerie Mattins, Srivarshan Selvaraj, Ratnavel Rajalakshmi & Gnana Bharathy (2024) Tamil Co-Writer: Towards inclusive use of generative AI for writing support. In Joint Proceedings of LAK ...

Generative AI (GenAI) has captured global attention since ChatGPT was publicly released in November 2022. The remarkable capabilities of AI have sparked a myriad of discussions around its vast potential, ethical considerations, and transformative impact across diverse sectors, including education. In particular, how humans can learn to work with AI to augment their intelligence rather ...

You might be familiar with my research in the field of Writing Analytics, particularly Automated Writing Feedback during my PhD and beyond. The work is based off an automated feedback tool called AcaWriter (previously called Automated Writing Analytics/ AWA) which we developed at the Connected Intelligence Centre, University of Technology Sydney. Recently we have come ...

I’ve recently had my writing analytics work published at the 21st international conference on artificial intelligence in education (AIED 2020) where the theme was “Augmented Intelligence to Empower Education”. It is a short paper describing a text analysis and visualisation method to study revisions. It introduced ‘Automated Revision Graphs’ to study revisions in short texts ...

Three of my journal articles got published recently, two on learning analytics/ writing analytics implementations . that I worked on earlier (many years ago in fact, which just got published!). Article 1: Educator ...