Ben Shapiro
Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolBen Shapiro is an assistant professor of Learning Technologies at Georgia State University who combines learning sciences, information visualization, and computer science to design data-driven learning environments. With a decade of experience spanning a Ph.D. at Vanderbilt, a postdoc at Georgia Tech, and research on space, mobility, and classroom interaction, he builds tools that make data personally meaningful and support pathways to data literacy and civic engagement. His work uniquely emphasizes the learner’s relationship to data—applying that lens to data ethics, teacher reflection, and novel classroom experiences. Based in Atlanta, he blends rigorous research with practical design, translating insights from architecture and summer leadership roles into environments that shape how people engage with data.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at Middlebury CollegePh.D., Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (8)
interaction10
visualization10
react9
data-visualization9
transcript8
transcription7
python5
webscraping1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BenRydal/IGS_Museum
Aug 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 7 months
BenRydal/IGS_Sean-Numbers
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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