Dr Dror Ben-Naim, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW, Professor of Practice and Co-director, Center of Education Through Exploration, Arizona State University and the founder and CEO of Smart Sparrow, an ed-tech company pioneering adaptive and personalised learning technology.
Before founding Smart Sparrow, Ben-Naim led a research group in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Educational Data Mining at UNSW. Ben-Naim developed the Adaptive eLearning Platform during his PhD research, a project that attracted significant traction and funding and successfully expanded into a multi-university project involving many top universities in Australia.
In 2011, Ben-Naim and his fellow researchers founded Smart Sparrow to take Adaptive Learning to the next level with a very ambitious mission –to empower teachers to make the world a smarter place.
Experience
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2011–presentFounder, CEO, Smart Sparrow
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2011–presentAdjunct Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW
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2014–presentProfessor of Practice, Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
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2015–presentCo-director, Center for Education Through Exploration, ASU
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2005–2010Researcher, PhD Candidate, UNSW
Education
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2011UNSW, PhD, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Data Mining
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2004UNSW, Bachelor of Science Physics and Computer Science
Research Areas
- Pattern Recognition And Data Mining (080109)
- Knowledge Representation And Machine Learning (170203)
- Higher Education (130103)
- Expert Systems (080105)
- San Francisco, USA
- Website
- @drorBenNaim
- Article Feed
- Joined
