Rate My Professor Kalina Yacef

Yacef's research specializations encompass Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Health Sensors Data Mining, and Human-centred Data Mining. She is a founding member of the International Educational Data Mining Society (IEDMS) and serves on its Board of Directors. Additionally, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (AIED). Her editorial contributions include serving as Founding Editor-in-Chief and current Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM), as well as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT). Yacef regularly participates as a program committee member and chair for major international conferences in learning analytics and AI in education. Her scholarly impact is evidenced by over 8,600 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include 'The state of educational data mining in 2009: A review and future visions' (with R.S.J.d. Baker, 2009), cited over 2,700 times; 'Clustering and sequential pattern mining of online collaborative learning data' (with D. Perera, J. Kay, I. Koprinska, and O.R. Zaïane, 2008); 'Educational Data Mining: a Case Study' (with A. Merceron, 2005); 'Collaborative writing support tools on the cloud' (with R.A. Calvo, S.T. O'Rourke, J. Jones, and P. Reimann, 2010); and 'An interactive teacher’s dashboard for monitoring groups in a multi-tabletop learning environment' (with R. Martinez-Maldonado, J. Kay, and B. Schwendimann, 2012). She has secured funding from the Australian Research Council for projects in educational technologies.