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Current activities and focus areas as of January 2025:

🤖 GENIAL: GENerative AI Tools as a Catalyst for Learning

Investigating how generative AI tools affect programming education and critical thinking development. Led jointly with Dr Marcos Barreto.

Recent publication:

Sallai, D., Cardoso-Silva, J., Barreto, M., Panero, F., Berrada, G. and Luxmoore, S. (2024) ‘Approach Generative AI Tools Proactively or Risk Bypassing the Learning Process in Higher Education’, LSE Public Policy Review, 3(3), p. 7.

Project site: lse-dsi.github.io/genial

📊 Research Projects

DISCORDIA: Parliamentary Dissent Analysis

Analysing patterns of political dissent in parliamentary speeches.

Team:

• Terry Zhou (UG Research Assistant)
• Nikolai Semikhatov (UG Research Assistant)

ChatLSE

An open-source RAG implementation for institutional knowledge: - Query rewriting for natural conversation flow - Context-aware follow-up handling - Repository

Team:

• Terry Zhou (current)
• Alexey Burmistrov (current)
• Jinshuai Ma (current)
• Kristina Dixon (past)
• Aksh Sabherwal (past)
• Kylin Gao (past)
• Riya Chhikara (past)

Course Selection Pathways (completed Oct 2024)

Visual analytics of LSE student course choices. Collaboration with: - Ellen Austin (LSE Planning) - Prakrit Jayakumar (Research Assistant) - Ethan Virtudazo (Research Assistant)

🎓 Teaching

Current course development: - DS105 (Data for Data Science) - DS205 (Advanced Data Manipulation) - website in the works

Supporting projects: - Quarto course template - 2x LSE Changemakers projects focused on GenerativeAI in Education

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Last updated: 30 December 2024