Daniel Ritchie
Product & Research Lead ASPIRE AI Math Tutor
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Ritchie is a PhD student at UC Irvine’s Digital Learning Lab who designs and builds AI-driven educational tools to make learning more interactive and personalized. With a BS in Computer Science and an education minor from UC Davis and nine years of hands-on experience, he bridges pedagogy and engineering—shipping conversational agents, generative writing tools, and AI curricula targeted at K–12 and higher education. He has practical classroom and teaching experience from roles at iD Tech and ThoughtSTEM and a track record of shipping front-end projects and maintaining research codebases on GitHub. Comfortable with Python, R, React, and domain-specific languages like Racket, he also brings bioinformatics scripting and maker-space hardware setup experience that informs a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to edtech. Passionate about scalable AI literacy, he’s seeking opportunities to translate research prototypes into products that prepare students for a tech-driven future.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, DavisUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (3)
rpg4
2d-game3
game-development2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uci-soe/FairytaleQAData
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
A dataset of over 10000 question and answer pairs written for storybooks.
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
answerquestiondatasetquestion-and-answerstorybooks
dritchie1031/dritchie1031.github.io
Jul 2019 - Sep 2025
My personal website
Contributions:8 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 3 months
reactnextjs
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