About Dr. Bruce Martin McLaren

Dr. Bruce Martin McLaren is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is a past President of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (2017-2019). Dr. McLaren is passionate about how technology can support education and has dedicated his research to projects that explore how students can learn with digital learning games (also called educational games), intelligent tutoring systems, e-learning principles, and collaborative learning. Dr. McLaren's research with digital learning games, for instance, has shown that students can learn about decimals and decimal operations better by playing a game than by using more conventional technology. Dr. McLaren’s research with digital learning games has also uncovered a gender effect, in which females are more engaged and learn more from his Decimal Point learning game, Decimal Point.

Dr. McLaren holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. in Computer Science (cum laude) from Millersville University (of Pennsylvania). During his career, he has published over 200 articles, including 42 journal articles.

In addition to his research background, Dr. McLaren has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial sector, applying research ideas to practical problems using artificial intelligence techniques.

Dr. McLaren’s Wikipedia page provides further information on his background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_M._McLaren.  

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