Daryl D’Souza

Dr Daryl D'Souza has taught for more than 30 years within the discipline of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT, with excellent teaching scores and recognition for good teaching at all levels. He has pursued computing education research since 2006, and is also interested in automatic text classification and data analytics for health and teaching and learning. He has led two successful internal RMIT Learning and Teaching grants, which established a sustainable peer mentoring service and which has operated since 2007. Daryl has chaired two national computing education conferences; published in computing education research for the last five years; served in program leadership roles, in which he established an important pathway for non-IT, mature-age students to enable transition into IT employment. He brings to the project his expertise in developing support services that enable a diverse range of students to succeed in Computer Science and Information Technology courses.