Summary
Vitomir Kovanovic is a Professor and Associate Director of Research Excellence and Communication at the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at Adelaide University, with 11 years of experience bridging learning analytics, AI in education, and complex skill measurement. He leads the field as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Learning Analytics and serves as an associate editor for Higher Education Research & Development, combining scholarly leadership with hands-on data science. His work spans text mining, social network analysis, and educational data mining, informed by PhD training from Edinburgh and cross-disciplinary research stints in Canada and the UK. Before academia he built large-scale enterprise Java systems, which gives him rare practical insight into productionizing analytics at scale. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced competency models into measurable analytics and for communicating research impact to diverse stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) School of Informatics Learning Analytics Text Mining Social Network Analysis, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) School of Informatics Learning Analytics Text Mining Social Network Analysis at The University of Edinburgh
Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Computer Science at University of Belgrade
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Interactive Arts and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University