Pierre Dillenbourg

Full professor at EPFL

Areas of expertise

- Learning technologies (AI, AR, robotics, tangibles). Computer-supported collaborative learning. Vocational education & training. Human-computer interaction

Major works

Director of the leading house ‘technologies for vocational education systems’
Former academic director of Center for Digital Education (over 2 million MOOC registrations)
Co-founder of the Swiss EdTech Collider, an incubator with 90 start-ups in learning technologies
Co-founder of the EPFL Center of Learning Sciences

About me

Pierre Dillenbourg is professor in learning technologies in the School of Computer & Communication Sciences, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). A former teacher in elementary school, he graduated in educational science (University of Mons, Belgium). He started his research on learning technologies in 1984. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for education. He is a fellow of the International Society for Learning Sciences.