February 26, 2025
I am deeply grateful to be awarded the University Graduate Continuing Fellowship. This recognition would not have been possible without the unwavering support of my mentors and peers. I appreciate the encouragement and guidance that have shaped my journey, and I look forward to continuing my research alongside such an inspiring academic community!
February 14, 2025
I am truly honored to receive the Michael B. Salwen Scholarship from the Korean-American Educational Researchers Association. Grateful for the support and recognition from the KAERA community. Looking forward to connecting with and learning from mentors and fellow scholars!
Supporting Civic Learning in the Mathematics Classroom Examples and Reflections from Teacher Inquiry.pdfFebruary 12, 2025
Our paper, "Supporting Civic Learning in the Mathematics Classroom: Examples and Reflections from Teacher Inquiry," is now published in The New Educator! 🎉 This piece shares insights from a social design-based experiment with K-12 STEAM teachers. So excited to share this work! 📚✨
January 31, 2025
Thrilled to share that one of my dissertation papers, "Exploring Keyboard Interactions and Power Dynamics in Collaborative Groups Using AI for Tracking Human Activity," has been nominated for the Advanced Technologies for Learning/Learning Sciences (ATL/LS) Special Interest Groups’ Best Student Paper Award! 🏆 Grateful for my amazing collaborators and looking forward to sharing this work with the community! 🙌📚
Beyond Verbal_2025.pdfJanuary 3, 2025
Our paper, "Beyond Verbal: A Methodological Approach to Highlighting Students’ Embodied Participation in Mathematics Classrooms," is officially out in Educational Researcher today! We’re excited to share it with you! 🎉 Link
SNComputerScience.pdfNovember 1, 2024
We are excited to share that our research on the integrated computer science and mathematics curriculum has been published today!
July 25, 2024
Successfully completed my Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Defense! I'm deeply thankful to my committee for making time in their busy schedules to make this possible over the summer.
June 16-19, 2024
NCTM-NCTE 2024 in New Orleans, LA. Connecting research to practice is what truly adds value!
June 10-14, 2024
ISLS 2024 in Buffalo NY has come to a close! Thank you for joining my sessions and I’m excited to keep working on my works with a lot of gratitude and humility :)
May 31, 2024
I gave two invited talks at Stanford University as a fellowship recipient: "Equity Learning Analytics: A Multimodal Approach to Understanding Group Dynamics through Verbal, Nonverbal, and Object-Based Interactions in Collaborative Learning" and "Ethical AIED and AIED Ethics: Toward Synergy Between AIED Research and Ethical Frameworks." Thank you to the 100+ people who joined us both in person and online today and for the amazing questions asked. I am very deeply grateful to Learnest for funding my research initiative.
May 11, 2024
Side quest completed :) Completion of M.S. in Statistics, graduating with all As (4.00/4.00). Immense gratitude to all for your support on this journey!
April 10-14, 2024
KAERA 2024 and AERA 2024 in Philadelphia. The highlight was reconnecting and I’m really grateful to have all of you in my life. I presented four talks at the AERA 2024 covering topics on learning sciences, computer science and mathematics education, robotics, embodied participation, and more-than-human empathizing.
June 10–15, 2023
ISLS 2023 in Montreal, Canada. I incredibly enjoyed the conference! Gave a talk about my physical computing project and two talks on our transdisciplinary civic learning collaborative projects :) I loved reconnecting with such inspiring and caring people.
April 13-16, 2023
AERA 2023 in Chicago – shared some exciting papers on our AOLME projects! 😊
JLA_ResponsibleLA_Leeetal.pdfMarch 12, 2023
I implemented a new LA approach in a virtual mentoring context and discovered an interesting phenomenon: five of the six participating mentors avoided disclosing to their mentees that they had accessed their LA data.
This empirical studyJ2, using interpretative phenomenological analysis, revealed tensions identified by the mentors, including the intersecting phenomena and dynamics surrounding self-awareness of data ethics, understandings of privacy, perceptions of trust and risk, agency, context, and culture.
Bringing together the ethics of responsibility, ethical frameworks in LA, and the notion of dynamic nominalism, our study contributes a sociocritical lens to view ethics not merely as a set of abstract principles or individual rational decisions but as cultural, personal, and professional values enacted in practice. It also proposes design recommendations for responsible LA systems, providing guidelines for instructors, students, and institutions to engage responsibly. This work was funded by grants in recognition of its potential impact and significance and has been shared in several invited talksT3,T4,T5,T7.
*Reference codes (e.g., J2, T3) point to specific sections in my CV
To be updated further on my past journey....