Dr. Ryan S. Baker is an associate professor in the graduate school of education at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Baker develops data mining methods for monitoring the interaction between students and educational software. He is currently serving as the director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics. He was also a founding president of the International Educational Data Mining Society and is currently a member of the board of directors of that society. He was previously an associate professor at Columbia University in the Department of Human Development. Dr. Baker received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.