Kalina Yacef

Professor Kalina Yacef is affiliated with The University of Sydney's School of Computer Science. Her research interests include human-centred computing, human-computer interaction, learning analytics, computing education, natural language processing, affective computing, artificial intelligence, and public health. She holds the title of Professor and is associated with the Department of CS. Her work focuses on developing intelligent systems that leverage multimodal data to support personalisation, user modelling, and decision-making in educational and broader human-AI interaction contexts. She is a founding member of the International Educational Data Mining Society and has served on its Board of Directors, as well as on the Executive Committee of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society.

Kalina Yacef is a researcher at the University of Sydney specializing in Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Health Sensors Data Mining, and Human-centred Data Mining. Her work focuses on analyzing educational data to improve learning and teaching through tools like web-based tutoring systems and interactive teacher dashboards. She explores collaborative learning environments, such as multi-tabletop classrooms, to understand student and teacher interactions. Her research also includes mining sequential patterns in collaborative writing and analyzing verbal and physical interactions during teamwork. Yacef's contributions emphasize the use of data-driven insights to enhance educational practices and support personalized learning.