Zachari Swiecki is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash University, Faculty of IT.  He received his master's and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a member of the Epistemic Analytics lab. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics. He has played a central role in the development and dissemination of Quantitative Ethnography, an emerging methodology that combines qualitative analysis, statistics, and data science into a single framework. Zachari works in the field of learning analytics—the application of data science techniques to learning contexts—with an emphasis on collaborative settings. Recently, he has focused on modelling and understanding how students work with generative AI as they write.