Big Data, Computer science, Analytics and Data Mining

Biography

Maria Cutumisu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, at the University of Alberta, in the area of Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computing Science, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta. Her research draws on computing science and educational psychology. She graduated with an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta and she trained as a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Research Interest

Computational thinking and serious games, application of psychophysiological techniques (e.g., eye-tracking and electrodermal activity measures)