Dr. Pardos is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley studying adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a dissertation on computational models of cognitive mastery. Funded by a National Science Foundation Fellowship (GK-12), he spent extensive time with K-12 educators and students working to integrate educational technology into...
Ken Singer is a grad student in the Learning Sciences. A stubborn and rebellious child of educators and entrepreneurs, he started his career as a tech entrepreneur and then transitioned into higher ed, proving once again that despite all efforts, some of us become our parents. Ken has spent his teaching career trying to reach innovators and risk-takers, finding that many resist or reject traditional forms of instruction. As a result, he co-created new pedagogies to help non-traditional learners, across cultures, access entrepreneurial knowledge and develop entrepreneurial mindsets and...
Darryl is a visionary Learning Scientist whose research explores the complex intersections of education, social equity, and human psychology. With a career dedicated to uncovering how underrepresented STEM students can thrive academically despite the often oppressive barriers of societal stereotypes, Darryl’s work shines a light on the transformative power of knowledge and self-awareness in traditionally exclusive fields.
At the core of his research lies a deep fascination with embodied cognition—a theory suggesting that the mind is not only connected to the body but is also deeply...
Kelly is a fifth year doctoral candidate at the Berkeley School of Education in the Learning Sciences and Human Development cluster. Kelly’s work is deeply informed by her teaching experience in Oakland, California and former students. In pursuing a graduate degree, Kelly hopes to highlight the amazing work Oakland students and STEM teachers are doing to integrate local justice issues into classroom projects and conversations.
Kelly's current research focuses on collaborating with Bay Area teachers to design learning environments that support students in using data science to...
Ratih is a PhD student in the Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on promoting epistemic diversity and cultural funds of knowledge in students by integrating culturally situated embodied cognition into mathematics education. Currently, she is working on the Geometry Resources in Dance (GRiD) project, a gridded floor mat to objectify tacit attentional anchors for movement coordination into auxiliary lines for geometric practice.
Originally from Bali, Ratih formal background is in mathematics education, and she...
Zoe Silverman is a doctoral candidate in Learning Sciences & Human Development at UC Berkeley. Her research engages video-based interaction analyses of talk, gaze, gesture, touch, space, and movement during facilitated education programs to illuminate how participants—both human and non-human—collaborate to do hands-on learning with objects in museums.
Zoe worked for more than a decade as an education specialist and program coordinator at a variety of arts and cultural institutions in Boston and Los Angeles. In previous lives, she was a high school social studies teacher and...
Meg Everett is a Regent’s Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in the Learning Sciences and Human Development (LSHD) cluster with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Her research interests include critical media literacy, the intersection of schools and social media, and computer-mediated learning and communication. She is the course author and instructor of NWMedia 90: Examining Sociocultural Issues through TikTok.
Meg’s work is driven by a passion for leveraging technology to create innovative, engaging, and equitable learning environments that center students' experiences and foster...
Travis J. Bristol is an associate professor of teacher education and education policy in Berkeley’s School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of African American Studies. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity. Before joining Berkeley's faculty, he was a Peter Paul Assistant Professor at Boston University. Using qualitative methods, Dr. Bristol explores three...
Anne Cunningham is a faculty member in the Learning Sciences and Human Development Cluster and also serves as the UCB Director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education. She is a developmental scientist known for her research on literacy and development across the life span in which she examines the cognitive and motivational processes underlying reading ability and the interplay of context, development, and literacy instruction. Dr. Cunningham has been awarded several prestigious research fellowships from the National Academy of Education, National Science Foundation, and ...
Dana Miller-Cotto is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. She earned her PhD in Education from Temple University and her MEd from Temple University.
Dr. Miller-Cotto has used approaches from cognitive science, sociology, and educational psychology to study predictors of educational inequity, particularly as they relate to marginalized students learning math. A significant portion of her research focuses on individual differences in math performance for Black and Latine students living in poverty who generally demonstrate lower performance in mathematics in...
