Andrew Ruis

A. R. Ruis is Associate Director of the Center for Research on Complex Thinking, a research scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and a fellow in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States, as well as numerous articles on the history of food, nutrition, and health; quantitative ethnography, digital humanities, and research methodology; environmental and medical education; and public policy. Dr. Ruis led the development of iPlan, which simulates the impacts of land use on socio-economic and environmental issues in local context, and he has contributed to the development of other learning simulations and analytic tools, including epistemic network analysis. His current projects focus on environmental learning simulation design; modeling multilingual climate change adaptation policies; subgroup fairness in automated text classification; and novel methods for assessing learning and complex thinking in educational simulations.