Ben Shapiro
Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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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
react9
transcript9
data-visualization9
visualization9
transcription9
python6
scraper1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BenRydal/igs
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:14 releases, 915 commits, 101 PRs in 1 year 11 months
reactinteractionvisualizingdata-visualizationvisualization
BenRydal/mondrian-transcription
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Transcribing movement from video
Contributions:5 releases, 279 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 9 months
captionpythontranscriptionvideotranscript
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