Mrs. Vanessa Echeverria
Details
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Department: School of Computing Technologies
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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vanessa.echeverria@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-2022-9588
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
About
Dr Vanessa Echeverria is a Lecturer in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. Vanessa was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Human-Centred Computing at Monash University (2022 - 2025), where she co-led large-scale studies deploying AI-driven analytics tools in nursing education and simulation-based learning. She served as an Assistant Professor at ESPOL (Ecuador) (2013 - 2022), leading projects in AI, data science, and educational technology. In 2020, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (USA), contributing to research on co-designing K-12 interfaces for learning and collaboration.
Vanessa completed her PhD in Learning Analytics at the University of Technology Sydney (2016–2020), where her work on multimodal data-driven feedback systems received recognition, including the Chancellor’s List of Outstanding PhD Theses (Honourable Mention).
Her research has been published in top-tier venues such as Computers & Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, ACM CHI, and LAK, and has been recognised with multiple awards, including the 2025 Early Career Researcher Award from the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).
Research fields
- 4608 Human-centred computing
- 4602 Artificial intelligence
- 390405 Educational technology and computing
- 460307 Multimodal analysis and synthesis
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- 4 Quality Education
Academic positions
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Monash University
- Human-Centred Computing
- Clayton, Australia
- 4 Jul 2022 – 10 Jan 2025
- Lecturer
- Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 3 Aug 2020 – Present
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Human-Centred Interaction Institute
- Pittsburgh, United States
- 27 Jan 2020 – 31 Jul 2020
Research interests
Her research lies at the intersection of Human-Centred Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Multimodal Analytics. She investigates how AI systems can be co-designed and deployed responsibly to augment human decision-making, reflection, and collaboration in complex, real-world environments such as healthcare, education, and workforce training. She leads interdisciplinary projects that integrate sensing, data analytics, and generative AI to develop interpretable and trustworthy systems that enhance human performance and situational awareness. Her work bridges technical innovation and human-centred design, contributing to ethical, data-informed AI solutions for high-stakes domains.
