Dr. Tanmay Sinha

Dr. Tanmay SINHA earned his masters in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (2014-2016) and completed his doctoral and postdoctoral work in the learning sciences at ETH Zurich (2017-2023). He most recently served as the executive director for the first joint ETH-EPFL doctoral program in the learning sciences (2021-2023). After leaving ETH Zurich, Tanmay was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Tanmay’s doctoral work investigated the learning affordances of deliberate, guided failure in learning through inquiry. His most recent strand of research began looking at the light and dark side of emotions in learning, leading to the development of novel interventions to induce and regulate shame in failure-driven learning.

At ETH, Tanmay co-taught a specialized course on the Science of Learning from Failure (2019-2020), started a two-semester graduate-level course on the Methodological Foundations of the Learning Sciences (2021-2023), and most recently, a new graduate-level course on Artificial Intelligence in Education too (2021-2022).