Prof Simon Buckingham Shum

Simon Buckingham Shum is Professor of Learning Informatics at the Transdisciplinary School, University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this he directed the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (2014-26), a transdisciplinary innovation centre inventing, piloting, evaluating and scaling personalised feedback to students using analytics and AI. He moved to UTS after nearly 19 years at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute. Simon helped establish the field of Learning Analytics, played a central role in the UTS teaching and learning response to GenAI, and is an active contributor the national and international debate around AI in higher education.