DSAN Professor Dr. Qiwei Britt He Honored by Provost

We are proud to share that DSAN Associate Professor and AIMD Lab Director Dr. Qiwei Britt He has been designated as a “Provost Distinguished Associate Professor”.

Each year since 2016, deans, departments, and similar units nominate deserving colleagues as Provost Distinguished Associate Professors. A committee of distinguished senior faculty, chaired by Chandan Vaidya, Vice Provost for Faculty, reviews the applicants.

Georgetown uses the designation to honor Associate Professors who are performing at extraordinarily high levels. Their work exemplifies what makes Georgetown strong – faculty thoroughly engaged in pushing the envelope of knowledge in their field and transmitting their passion for such work to their students and the general public.

From the Provost’s website:

Dr. Qiwei (Britt) He is Associate Professor in the Program of Data Science and Director of the AI-Measurement and Data Science (AIMD) Lab at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is also affiliated with the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. He has a Ph.D in Psychometrics and Data Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Dr. He’s research spans education, psychology, psychiatry, and public health, by leveraging new data sources in educational measurement with innovative data science methods. She aims to identify individuals’ latent traits and problem- solving strategies by sequence mining, text mining, psychometric modeling, and machine learning using multimodal data sources, such as log-file process data (human-machine interactions), eye-tracking, virtual reality, and textual data. Her work, funded by grants from the Department of Education, is published in top-tier journals in education and psychometrics as well as in books. Her co-edited book, Process Data in Educational and Psychological Measurement, was awarded the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Award of Exceptional Achievement in 2023, a prestigious honor granted to one recipient annually. Most recently, she is the recipient of the Exemplary Paper Award in Adult Literacy and Education from the American Educational Research Association in 2023. Dr. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Data Science and is currently selected to serve on the committee charged with revising the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, jointly appointed by the American Educational Research Association, National Council on Measurement in Education, and the American Psychological Association.

Dr. He teaches graduate-level courses in data mining and adaptive measurement with artificial intelligence.