Charanya Ramakrishnan

Charanya Ramakrishnan is an award-winning educator from the School of Computing. She is the current Course Director for the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree. In this role, she provides leadership in the curriculum design, mainly focusing on the core units that serve seven different majors that the BIT degree offers. 

Charanya is passionate about teaching and making a difference in every student's life. She uses unconventional practices to create an active learning space for students to learn complex IT concepts (including karaoke in the lectures). She has put Macquarie University twice on the map by teaching cutting-edge technology frameworks like React-Native and Flutter to help her students' graduate capabilities. She enjoys teaching first-year units and convenes large first-year units (n>=1400).

Charanya has won multiple teaching awards, including the prestigious Macquarie's VC Award (student-nominated category). In 2023, she was the only IT academic in Australia to win the AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, a national recognition for her teaching quality and student outcomes. In 2024, she was a finalist in the national AFR Award for Teaching and Learning Excellence. 

• Course Director of Bachelor of Information Technology
• Unit Convenor for multiple first-year units
• Member of the School of Computing Education Committee
• Member of the School of EDI Committee
• Founding Member of the Computing Education Research Group
• Founding Academic of the Women in Computing Student Group

Artificial Intelligence in Education, Higher Education Retention, Learning Analytics, Educational Pedagogies