About me
Alexey Popov is the Data Innovation Lead at English Schools Foundation (ESF) in Hong Kong.
Prior to this role he had 15 years of experience as a teacher and educator. He taught IB Psychology and Theory of Knowledge in Russia, India and Hong Kong. He has been involved with the IB educator network as an examiner, workshop leader, curriculum developer and textbook author. He has published textbooks for IB Theory of knowledge (Themantic Education) and IB Psychology (Oxford University Press). He holds two Master's degrees (linguistics and psychology) and a PhD in Educational psychology.
Alexey is passionate about data analytics and data science and he is keen to bring the latest developments in data science into education. He implemented a number of data projects in the past including developing psychometric tests for business and education, designing predictive models and building automated solutions to support decision-making under uncertainty. He is a self-taught data scientist with a working knowledge of Python and R.
He lives in Hong Kong with his wife Daria and a 6-year-old daughter Mia.