Giora Alexandron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Head of the Computational Approaches in Science Education (CASEd) Lab. He joined the department in 2017 after serving as the Chief Data Scientist at the Center for Educational Technology, where he led the development of learning analytics infrastructures and applications for K–12 education. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There, he conducted educational data mining research on edX Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) under the mentorship of Prof. Dave Pritchard, a pioneer in MOOCs research and mentor to two Nobel Laureates in Physics.
Giora holds a PhD in Computer Science Education from the Weizmann Institute of Science (2014), completed under the supervision of Prof. David Harel and Prof. Michal Armoni; an MSc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University (2005), under the supervision of Prof. Micha Sharir and Prof. Haim Kaplan; and a BA in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yafo (2001). Before beginning his doctoral studies, he developed algorithms and tools for system modeling and hardware verification at Verisity, an Israeli startup, and later at Cadence Design Systems, which acquired Verisity for $300 million. He was born and raised on a kibbutz in northern Israel.
Giora served as Program Co-Chair of EDM 2025. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Educational Data Mining and as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Educational Data Mining Society and serves on ACM's Learning@Scale Steering Committee.