Professor Looi obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses on learning sciences, computer-supported collaborative learning, mobile learning, AI in education, and computational thinking. He has had published more than 120 papers in international journal papers, as well as over 50 books or chapters, and produced 160 refereed international conference papers. Professor Looi has given more than 90 keynote speeches, and plenary and invited talks at international conferences and institutions. His research has had a high level of influence on educational practices. His work on rapid collaborative learning was cited in the 2010 US National Educational Technology Plan as a key example of technology-enabled innovation of significant impact. 
 

Professor Looi is a Fellow of the International Society of Learning Sciences, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. During his stint at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Professor Looi was the founding head of the Learning Sciences Lab, the first research centre devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. He served as the President of the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education from 2017 to 2019.