Dragan Gašević is Professor of Learning Analytics in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence of the Faculty of Information Technology and the Director of the Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash University. Dragan’s research interests in learning analytics center around the development of computational and design methods that advance understanding of self-regulated and collaborative learning. He is a founder and served as the President (2015-2017) of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR). In 2019-2022, he was recognized as the national field leader in educational technology in The Australian’s Research Magazine. In 2022, he received Lifetime Member Award as the highest distinction of SoLAR and was recognized as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.