Ryan S. Baker

Dr. Ryan S. Baker
Born	1977
Residence	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	USA
Citizenship	USA
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Academic advisors	Kenneth Koedinger, Albert T. Corbett

Ryan S. Baker (born 1977 in Naperville, Illinois) is an associate professor of education and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, and also directs the Penn Center for Learning Analytics. He is known for his role in establishing the educational data mining scientific community, for the , and for establishing the first automated detector of student disengagement.

Baker obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Brown University, and a doctorate in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. His doctoral advisers were Kenneth Koedinger and Albert T. Corbett.

Baker worked as Assistant Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and as Associate Professor with tenure at University of Pennsylvania. He also served as the Julius and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Baker was Founding President of the International Educational Data Mining Society, and was one of the first (and current) Associate Editors of the Journal of Educational Data Mining. He served as founding Director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center DataShop, at one time the world's largest public repository for educational interaction data.

Baker taught the MOOC Big Data and Education multiple times, on both the Coursera and edX platforms. He also founded the world's first Masters program in Learning Analytics.

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