ANI AGHABABYAN - Active Learning Lab

ANI AGHABABYAN
8B Aggie Village, Logan, UT 84341 (435) 754-‐6285 [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/aniaghababyan EDUCATION
Ph.D. Degree, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences
M.S. Degree, Information Systems
M.S. Degree, Business Administration
Utah State University (USU), Logan, Utah
B.S. Degree, Law and Political Science
French University, Yerevan, Armenia
2014 (June)
2013
2009
2008
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Researcher
2012 - Present
USU Instructional Technology Departments
• Contributed to several successful grant applications (funded by NSF, Gates
Foundations and Darpa)
• Used data mining and data science tools and techniques to analyze educational
video games’ back end data
• Used Kurt API to analyze data from Scratch programming environment
• Working with predictive statistical tools and techniques
• Using R and Tableau for visualization modeling and D3 for dashboard design
Teaching Assistant
2013 - 2014
USU Instructional Technology Departments
• Contributed to the design and implementation of the Educational and Business
Data Mining course.
• Tutored students on data mining tools (e.g., R, Python IDLE, WEKA, SPSS,
SQL) and techniques (e.g., Association Rule mining, Sequence Pattern mining,
Inter-sequence Distance with Optimal Matching etc.)
• Contributed to the design and implementation of the Big Data Analytics course
• Tutored students on implementing analytics methods such as recommender
systems, tableau data visualizations, exploratory and predictive models
Web Developer/Programmer
2011 - 2013
USU Information Technology
• Provided personalized programming services and web development solutions
• Provided support with ezPlug content management system
• Used cold fusion based environment to create web templates and plugins upon
clients’ requests
Web Developer
USU Huntsman School of Business
2012
ANI AGHABABYAN, PG. 2
8B Aggie Village, Logan, UT 84341 [email protected] (435) 754-‐6285 • Co-created two new websites for the Business School
• Worked on designing and coding personalized profile accounts for all current and
prospective students
• Contributed to the implementation of one-login secure system across all business
school domains and plugins
Web Master
2011 - 2012
USU Instructional Technology Department
• Provided web support with content creation and management on the website
• Maintained and updated the website plugins and new pages
• Used Google Analytics tools to analyze department’s traffic over time.
Web Developer
2011 - 2012
USU Center for e-Commerce and Business Analytics, USU
• Negotiated a website design project with a client
• Designed the website (using Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Programmed the new website for Scandia Amusement parks in California (using
SQL Server, ASP.Net as well as HTML/CSS)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming Languages & Frameworks
• Visual Basic
• Cold Fusion
• SQL Server
• Java Script
• MySQL
• jQuery
• PL/SQL
• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• Python
(XHTML)
• D3 (familiarity)
• CSS
• Hadoop (HDFS)
Programming tools & computer skills
• MySQL
• Data Mining/
Workbench
Big Data
Analytics
• Visual Studio
• Data Science
• RStudio
• Photoshop (CS5)
• Virtual Box
• MS Office
• VMware Fusion
• MS Visio
• Android SDK
• Tableau
• WEKA
• MS Publisher
• Rapid Minder
• Mondrian
• Database
Administration
• GGobi
• MS Windows
XP/Vista/7,
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Hadoop Pig
(PigLatin)
Unix Command
Line
R
Mac OS,
UNIX/LINUX
Illustrator (CS5)
After Effect
(familiarity)
CMS (e.g.,
Drupal, Joomla,
EZplug)
Web Analytics
(e.g., Google
Analytics)
ANI AGHABABYAN, PG. 3
8B Aggie Village, Logan, UT 84341 [email protected] (435) 754-‐6285 www.linkedin.com/in/aniaghababyan LINGUISTIC SKILLS
English – fluent
Russian – fluent
French – advanced
Armenian – native
SELECTED CERTIFICATIONS AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
All Women’s Group API Winner
• Backcountry.com Women’s Hackathon
• Used product API to create a recommendation system based on customer’s
reviews for products
Educational Data Mining course on Coursera.com
• TA for data visualizations’ week on Ryan Baker’s EDM
2013
2013
Wishopy.com
2012
• Created electronic business-project: HTML 5 based web site-project along
with its Business Plan and Marketing Strategy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Educational Data Mining & Learning Analytics
Aghababyan, A., Dai, X., & Martin, T. (2014, July). Supervised Learning Methods for
Predicting Student Success in a Digital Game Environment. Paper submitted to
Educational Data Mining Conference, London, UK.
Martin, T., Forsgren Velasquez, N., Aghababyan, A., & Maughan, J. (2014, July).
Microgenetic Designs for Educational Data Mining Research. Paper submitted to
Educational Data Mining Conference, London, UK.
Aghababyan, A., Baker, J., & Martin, T. (2014, April). Students’ neurological response
patterns while playing math games. Paper to be presented at the American Educational
Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Martin, T., Petrick Smith, C., Forsgren Velasquez, N., Aghababyan, A., Janisiewicz, P.,
& Baker, S.. Learning fractions by splitting: Using learning analytics to illuminate the
development of mathematical understanding. Journal of the Learning Sciences. Under
Review.
Aghababyan, A., Martin, T., Forsgren Velasquez, N., and Janisiewicz, P. (2013).
Educational data mining: Illuminating student learning pathways in an online fraction
game. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Educational Data Mining,
Memphis, TN.

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