Usage: it's Ding-han, not Din-ghan. “Dave” is on no official document, but has followed him everywhere.
Note on the blue lines. They are scaffolding — around my name here, and as a tower on the right edge of every page. Scroll, and it comes down piece by piece: support that steps back once it's no longer needed. Whether AI can learn to do that for learners is the question at the centre of my research.
I build tools that turn messy educational-inequality data into something researchers can actually use.
I study Education at the University of Bristol and work as a Research Support Assistant in its School of Education, using Python, Docker, and interactive visualisation to turn complex, multi-source datasets into usable research infrastructure.
My research sits at the intersection of quantitative social research, data-informed education policy, and digital education. I am especially interested in whether AI-enabled scaffolding can recognise when a learner no longer needs support and step back accordingly — and, more broadly, in how AI may reshape education policy, learning environments, and cross-cultural learning.
Outside academia, I make a Chinese-language podcast, write poetry, and play music. These things are less separate from my research than they might appear.
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