Marie Bienkowski
Deputy Director of the Center for Technology, SRI International

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Marie Bienkowski is the Deputy Director of the Center for Technology in Learning, at the nonprofit research organization, SRI International. She works with educational researchers to develop and evaluate technology in K-12 education, and to contribute research data to education policy discussions. Many of her projects involve efforts to interest underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers with a focus on computer science. She leads software projects in the areas of learning resource analytics and intelligent information management. Dr. Bienkowski co-authored the report “Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics” for the U.S. Department of Education (released in October 2012). She is the co-PI of an NSF-funded grant on assessing computational thinking for high school students and is leading SRI’s contributions to the core infrastructure of the open-source learning-resource analytics project called the Learning Registry. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Connecticut.