Organising Committee

Marcus Messer

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London m.messer@imperial.ac.uk

Marcus Messer’s research focuses on automated formative feedback across multiple disciplines, with an emphasis on STEM education. His doctoral work focused on automated assessment tools for programming education.

Peter B. Johnson

Principal Lecturer and Deputy Director of Studies, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London

Peter B. Johnson has ten years of experience delivering innovation projects in education, including creating and directing Lambda Feedback, an automated formative feedback platform serving thousands of students and delivering feedback millions of times each year.

Alexandra Neagu

Doctoral Student, Imperial College London

Alexandra Neagu’s research focuses on adopting and evaluating Large Language Models to provide automated dialogic formative feedback during self-study.

Camille Kandiko Howson

Professor of Higher Education, Centre of Higher Education Research and Scholarship, Imperial College London

Camille Kandiko Howson’s research focuses on quality, performance, and accountability in education, student outcomes and learning gain, equality and social justice, and student engagement.

Jaromir Savelka

Research Associate, Technology for Effective and Efficient Learning Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

Jaromir Savelka’s research is organised around two interconnected themes: AI for supporting professionals, and AI for fairness and access.

Prarthana Bhattacharyya

Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Machine Learning Engineer, Eedi

Prarthana Bhattacharyy develops machine learning models and algorithms that improve personalized learning at scale. Their work combines educational and generative AI with practical MLOps to deliver measurable impact for students and educators. Recently, they have been working on misconception diagnosis from student-tutor dialog, and benchmarking knowledge tracing models against LLMs.

Website: https://prarthanabhattacharyya.github.io/

Simon Woodhead

Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder, Eedi

Simon Woodhead co-founded Eedi, an education technology platform dedicated to improving student learning outcomes. Eedi works with millions of K-12 students worldwide to identify mathematics misconceptions and provide personalised feedback.

Contact

For general enquiries: m.messer@imperial.ac.uk