About
The Wonder Lab strives to support human wonderment
in authentic contexts of learning.
As an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, we design technology-enhanced learning environments, develop learning analytics applications, and conduct empirical research in various educational settings.
News
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20 October 2025» PhD students Jiayu Cheng and Yuwei Liang presented at ICQE
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10 September 2025
Lab director Bodong Chen has been selected to join the 17th cohort Penn Fellows!
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16 June 2025
Lab director Bodong Chen presented a keynote titled Beyond Tools: Transitioning and Repairing Epistemic Infrastructure in Education at the Transformative Role of AI and Computational Thinking conference in Kolding, Denmark.
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02 April 2025
Our talented lab member, Amanda Tran, was part of a finalist team in the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative’s Hack-AI-Thon. Their project, AgoraAI, incorporates AI to support social annotation and classroom discussions.
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People
Graduate Researchers
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Jiayu Cheng
PhD student
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Yuwei Liang
PhD student
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Vivian Leung
Researcher; Developer
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Chen Wang
Instructional Technologist
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Shiyang Zhang
MSEd student
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Cassie Wang
MSEd student
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Weijia Lina Sun
MSEd student
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Ashley Zingillioglu
MSEd student
Developers
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Yue Zhao
MSEd; Developer
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Benji Encalada Mora
Lead Software Engineer
Faculty
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Bodong Chen
Associate Professor
Former Members
- Wenxi Chen Undergrad Developer
- Basel Hussein PhD --> postdoc at NYU
- Xinran Zhu PhD --> assistant prof at UIUC
- Hong Shui PhD; faculty at Sichuan Normal University
- Zixi Chen Postdoc --> assistant professor at NYU Shanghai
- Mengchen Su Postdoc --> Research Scientist at UMN
- Xiping Jiang MSEd --> PhD student at UT-Austin
- Keerthanya Rajesh MSEd --> Research Analyst at Research for Action
- Pingting Chen MSEd
- Yu-Hui Chang PhD --> Assistant Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University
- Rukmini Manasa PhD --> Research Associate at UIC
- Fan Ouyang PhD --> faculty at Zhejiang University
- Emily Yan MSEd
- Wenjing Chen MEd
- William Batu M.S. in CS
- Huanqing Wu Visiting scholar from Qufu Normal University
- Wanying Zhou Undergrad in Psychology --> Master's student at Penn
- Tianhui Huang Visiting scholar --> faculty at Yunnan University
- Yizhou Fan Visiting scholar --> faculty at Peking University
- Mustafa Serkan Günbatar Visiting scholar, Associate Professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University
- Yu Gao Visiting PhD student from CCNU
- Lee, Vwen Yen Alwyn Visiting Scholar, NIE Singapore
- Simone Luchini Visiting Student, PSU
- Amanda Tran MSEd student
- Kexin Chen MSEd student
- Ruby Ren MSEd student
Funding
Our work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Schmidt Futures, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Carina Initiatives, and other funding agencies.
