Dr Cassandra Colvin is a Lecturer in Educational Experience at Edith Cowan University, and an experienced Manager in the tertiary sector, having had oversight of strategy and teams across a broad array of the student experience, including careers and employability, student support, orientation and transition, learning analytics and evaluation. Across all roles she has secured a national profile for her work, and her achievements recognised in the receipt of a number of awards from professional and government bodies, including the Australian Office of Learning and Teaching. Cassandra has presented and published widely on themes relating to learning analytics, international student support, student development and equity. Her PhD (Murdoch University) focused on intercultural interactions on university campuses. Cassandra’s professional interests include learning analytics implementations and practice in higher education, intercultural relations between students, design and management of student support programs, staff management and embedding quality and continuous improvement tenets into all aspects of her work.

Dr Marios Kremantzis is a Lecturer in Business Analytics and Programme Director of the MSc in Business Analytics at the University of Bristol. Marios holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Southampton. Marios’ research interests lie in the fields of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and multi-criteria decision analysis. He has substantial experience in building and applying mathematical models to understand what the data is saying and then creating real-world solutions. He is also competent to evaluate the performance of production and operations systems with network structures under the DEA technique. Thanks to various cross-disciplinary research collaborations, his work has been published in world-leading journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, RAIRO-Operations Research, Supply Chain Analytics, and Agriculture. He has also organized special sessions for the conferences of the OR Society, DEA45, and the Athens Institute for Education and Research. During his doctoral studies, he received funding from the EPSRC and the BAE Systems, and he has taken part in internationally renowned conferences in the UK, Greece and South Korea.

Furthermore, Marios is the Founder and Chair of the OR, Analytics & Education SIG within the OR Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is an Associate in the theme of designing active learning sessions at the Bristol Institute for Learning & Teaching. He has distinguished himself for innovative teaching and assessment practices, which led to his win in 2023’s Bristol Teaching Awards: “Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Award”. Marios acts as the Guest Editor of two SIs on the enhancement of student engagement using Artificial Intelligence in the “Studies in Higher Education” and the “Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice”.