Tayyab Ilyas

PhD Researcher EdTech Founder AI × Education

I help educators in the Global South harness AI for better teaching.

About

The Story So Far

I'm a PhD researcher at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona studying how university teachers develop digital competence — with a decade of hands-on teaching experience in Pakistan.

I'm the founder of PakEdX, an AI-powered platform helping Pakistani teachers teach better with technology. I also built CAITA and QualCoder Pro — open research tools that make qualitative analysis transparent and reproducible.

Previously: classroom teacher and assistant education officer in Punjab. I believe the best EdTech is built by people who've been in the classroom.

Featured Work

Digital Competence Patterns Among Pakistani University Teachers Published · AJUE 2025
CAITA: Computer-Assisted Iterative Thematic Analysis Open-source framework
The DigCompEdu Framework: A Pakistani Perspective Dissertation chapter
AI for University Teachers: A Practical Guide Free resource

Ventures

Things I'm Building

PakEdX

AI-powered platform helping Pakistani teachers teach better with technology.

QualCoder Pro

Qualitative analysis tool for transparent and reproducible research.

CAITA

Computer-Assisted Iterative Thematic Analysis — an open-source research framework.

PrectAI

AI automation solutions for modern workflows.

Research

Research & Academic Work

PhD Candidate · Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona · CRIEDO Research Group

Dissertation: Pedagogical digital competence among Pakistani university teachers — a mixed-methods study with 127 surveys and 32 interviews.

81%

of Pakistani faculty demonstrate intermediate-to-advanced digital competence — but significantly underestimate their own abilities.

View publications on Google Scholar → CRIEDO Research Group profile →