15 April 2026
» PhD students Jiayu Cheng and Yuwei Liang presented at AERA
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28 March 2026
Lab director Bodong Chen delivered a featured talk Technology Design for Epistemic Niche Construction in the AI Era at the 2026 Knowledge Building International Conference in Nanjing, China!
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06 December 2025
Lab director Bodong Chen delivered a keynote Reclaiming Agency: Educators as Architects of AI-Enhanced Learning Architectures at the 2025 Language Educator Symposium!
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30 November 2025
Lab director Bodong Chen presented Enhancing Student and Teacher Agency in Knowledge Building with AI at the Singapore AI in Education Conference!
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20 October 2025» PhD students Jiayu Cheng and Yuwei Liang presented at ICQE
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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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Ruiqian Wang
MSEd student
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Weijia Lina Sun
MSEd student
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Ashley Zingillioglu
MSEd student
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Qiao Lin
MSEd student
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Zichen Wang
MSEd student
Developers
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Vivian Leung
Researcher; Developer
Faculty
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Bodong Chen
Associate Professor
Former Members
- Yue Zhao MSEd; Developer
- Benji Encalada Mora Lead Software Engineer
- 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.