Jake Renzella

Senior Lecturer

Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney

Director of Studies (Computer Science), Co-Head Computing and Education Research Group

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW where I co-lead the Computing and Education research group. I am an award winning educator, and my main area of study is applied AI in education, including designing and evaluating pedagogically-sound Large Language Models with support from Google. See my other projects. Previously, I have co-founded EdTech startups, and was a Research Fellow at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Teaching

I teach fundamentals computing courses such as Fundamentals of Programming, and Fundamentals of Software Engineering, achieving some of the highest student-satisfactions scores at UNSW. Read my entire Student Experience Teacher Report (yes, my *entire* report, including the good, the bad, and the ugly)

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