I joined KMi as a full-time PhD Student in October 2012. My PhD is being supervised by KMI's Simon Buckingham Shum, Anna De Liddo and IET's Rebecca Ferguson.

The main question that this PhD aims to answer is: "To what degree can computational text analysis and visual analytics be used to support the academic writing of students in higher education?"

This research investigates:

1) whether computational techniques can automatically identify the presence or absence of...

Coughlan, T., Rienties, B., Domingue, J., Herodotou, C., Ullmann, T., Bektik, D., Edwards, C., Whitelock, D., Coughlan, E. and Tessarolo, F. (2025) Holding a lead, or the tail wagging the dog? Exploring educator influence over the behaviour of AI Digital Assistants, EDEN 2025 Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy

Rienties, B., Ullmann, T., Tessarolo, F., Kwarteng, J., Domingue, J., Coughlan, T., Coughlan, E. and Bektik, D. (2025) Developing an institutional AI digital assistant in an age of Industry 5.0, Applied Sciences, pp. (In Press)

Bektik, D., (2014) Visual Analytics of Academic Writing, Demo at The 4th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Indianapolis, IN, USA, pp. 265-266, ACM New York, NY, USA ©2014

Bektik, D., (2013) XIP Dashboard: Visual Analytics from Automated Rhetorical Parsing of Scientific Metadiscourse, Workshop: 1st International Workshop on Discourse-Centric Learning Analytics at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK '13), Leuven, Belgium

Taibi, D., (2013) Visualizing the LAK/EDM Literature Using Combined Concept and Rhetorical Sentence Extraction, Demo at Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK '13), Leuven, Belgium