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Mark Warschauer is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Director of the Digital Learning Lab at UC Irvine, with affiliated appointments in Informatics, Language Science, and Psychology. He has written more than 300 publications on digital and AI-based learning and is among the world’s most widely-cited scholars in the world on these topics. His research, supported by over $30 million in federal funding, explores how conversational agents can support young children’s learning, how AI can be integrated with computer science for K-12 students, and how the award-winning PapyrusAI platform helps strengthen secondary and college students’ writing and AI literacy.

At UC Irvine’s School of Education, Dr. Warschauer has served as Associate Dean and Interim Dean, where he led the launch of the PhD in Education program, the Undergraduate Major in Education Sciences, and a new Master’s Program in Artificial Intelligence and Learning Analytics. He also helped create the new AI in Education Certificate Program, launched in partnership with the UCI Teacher Academy.

A first generation college student, Dr. Warschauer began his career as a Spanish bilingual math and ESL teacher in San Francisco, and earlier worked as a community organizer with the United Farm Workers. He has taught and conducted research in Hawaii, Moscow, Prague, Egypt, China, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil. He has served as founding editor of Language Learning & Technology and the inaugural editor of AERA Open, and he currently edits the Cambridge University Press Elements series on Generative AI in Education. A former Fulbright Scholar and US Title VII Bilingual Education Fellow, he has been named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and elected a Member of the National Academy of Education.