Sam Cunningham

Sam Cunningham is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, specializing in educational technology and natural language processing. His research focuses on computational analysis of student-written text for educational improvement.

Key research areas include:

• Automated analysis of student feedback and evaluations
• Academic integrity protection systems
• AI applications for conceptual understanding assessment
• Educational technology for engineering education

His publications demonstrate consistent focus on improving educational assessment through computational methods, with recent work on detecting abusive comments in teaching evaluations and preventing academic misconduct via automated monitoring tools.

He received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence (2021) and Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Computer Society.

As Deputy Academic Lead in Learning & Teaching, he coordinates courses including Social Technologies and Systems Innovation and Design, with special interest in supporting culturally diverse learners.