Associate Professor (Education)
Department of Methodology, LSE
I teach data science at LSE and study how generative AI influences the way students self-study. With colleagues on 
GENIAL, we produced a diagnostic framework from students’ ChatGPT conversations and Git histories. I am one of LSE’s fellows on the AI in Education Fellowship, building a proactive GenAI tutor that follows the syllabus week by week and offers different learning paths.
Generative AI in Education Data Science Education
AI in Education Fellow 2025–2027
Invited talk at GenAI Shorts, Imperial College London. A Claude tutor for DS105W built from five prompt files, updated each week as the course progresses, with protocol routing and early evidence from shared chatlogs.
Invited talk at AI in the Public Sphere, SciencesPo Paris. I present data from the GENIAL study, contrasting students who used generative AI productively with those who were misled by it, and explain how assignments that record process, plus continuous feedback, can help the students who were misled.
Notes & Reflections
What I heard at the LSE-KCL-PKU conference on AI in education, what it confirmed, and the question nobody could answer.
The GENIAL framework, a new cohort of data, and the beginning of analysis.
How generative AI exposed a flaw in the way we assess learning, and why fixing it requires more humans, not more technology.
How can we work with Generative AI and still preserve our critical thinking?
Cardoso-Silva, J., Sallai, D., Kearney, C., Panero, F., & Barreto, M. E. (2025). Mapping Student-GenAI Interactions onto Experiential Learning: The GENIAL Framework. SSRN Electronic Journal, 22.
Sallai, D., Cardoso-Silva, J., Barreto, M., Panero, F., Berrada, G., & Luxmoore, S. (2024). Approach Generative AI Tools Proactively or Risk Bypassing the Learning Process in Higher Education. LSE Public Policy Review, 3(3), 7.
De Bacco, C., Contisciani, M., Cardoso-Silva, J., et al. (2023). Latent network models to account for noisy, multiply reported social network data. JRSS Series A, qnac004.