I am a first-year PhD student at School of Education, UC Irvine, working with Dr. Shayan Doroudi and Dr. Kylie Peppler. Previously, I received my Master's degree in Educational Technology from Teachers College, Columbia University and earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Art History from Smith College. I also had the opportunity to research at URCS and Zhejiang Lab.

My multidisciplinary academic training shaped my interest in educational technology, AI in learning, learning analytics, and informal learning. My previous research projects involved tech-enhanced collaborative learning, AI literacy, maker education, and AR and embodied learning. In the long term, I want to study, design, build and test technologies that involve participants in STEM learning at scale, and I want to investigate how the design and interactions that these technologies afford can shape and transform learners’ cognitive and affective capabilities.