Funding, Fellowships, and Other Research Awards

Innovation and Responsibility in AI-Supported Education (iRAISE) Travel Scholarship

• The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)

• Mar 2025

School of Teaching and Learning Travel Award

• University of Florida

• Oct 2024

Doctoral Consortium Graduate Student Travel Support recipient

• The 17th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2024)

• Jul 2024

InterLearn: Advancing Fair, Inclusive, and Adaptive Educational Technologies, $5,000 

• OpenAI (Award # 0000001997)

• Apr 2024 - Apr 2025

• Investigating the use of large language models (LLMs) in the educational context to address challenges of fairness and representativeness, focusing on developing explainable AI (XAI) for personalized student feedback.

• Aiming to enhance AI-based feedback systems by analyzing differences between human-written and AI-generated content and creating a taxonomy of effective feedback types.

• Creating AI tools that offer safe, reliable, and educationally sound feedback, fostering improved learning outcomes for students.

Professional Service

• Reviewer (Journal) -  Scientific Reports

• Reviewer (Conference) -  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

• Reviewer (Journal) -  Journal of Learning Analytics (JLA) 

• Reviewer (Conference) -  American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) 

• Reviewer (Conference) -  Association for Educational Communications & Technology International Convention (AECT)

• Reviewer (Conference) - British Educational Research Association Annual Conference (BERA)

• Reviewer (Conference) - International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS/ISLS) 

• Reviewer (Conference) - Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK) 

Activities

• Student Volunteer - International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting (ISLS) - (Jun 2024)

• Technology Chair - UF College of Education Research Symposium Committee for - (Mar 2024)

• Course Representative - University of Southampton - (Sep 2016 - May 2020)

• Vice President - Capital Normal University Student Union - (Sep 2016 - May 2020)

Professional Memberships

• (Jun 2024 - Present) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• (Apr 2024 - Present) International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)

• (Jan 2024 - Present) American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• (Aug 2023 - Present) Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)

• (Jul 2022 - Present) British Educational Research Association (BERA)

• (Jul 2022 - Jul 2023) National Education Union (NEU)