Talks, awards,
and lab dispatches.

Awarded $70,000 for 'Multimodal Futures: Responsible AI for Equitable, Multilingual STEM Education Across Global Contexts.' 2026–2027. PI.

Kwon, Song, Lee, Eom, Lee, and Sung present a design-development study at the International Conference on Learning Sciences and Educational Innovation, Seoul, South Korea.

ISLS annual meeting (C15): AI-Enhanced sociocultural, multimodal approaches for equitable collaborative learning: Learning, power, and multimodality. CSCL (C14): Integrating AI and interaction analysis: A mixed-methods approach to tracing object-based participation in CSCL. ICLS (C13): Speculating, questioning, and interpreting: A mixed-methods study of informal learning on a video-sharing social media platform.

Ko, Lee, Singh, Boddy, Ford, and Huff report instructor experiences with a campus-wide AI tutor platform. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Presenting 'Multimodal participation analysis in CSCL through AI-enhanced Activity Mapping and screen recording video analysis systems' at AERA 2026 in Los Angeles, CA.

Invited mentoring session on Learning Science, STEM/AI in Education at the 2026 Korean American Educational Researchers Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Received the UVA IDEAs (Innovative, Developmental, Exploratory Awards) for the project 'Multimodal STEM+AI Classrooms: A Sociocultural Inquiry into Participatory Design for Collaborative Learning.' $10,000 over 2026–2027. PI.

Published 'Toward an inclusive understanding of collaborative learning using MMLA' in Learning and Instruction, Vol. 102, Special issue on implementing multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) in ecological settings.

Guest lecture on AI in STEM teaching in EDIS 5051: Teaching Science in Secondary Schools II (undergraduate level course), University of Virginia.

Hannah joins the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education as Assistant Professor of Education (tenure track), School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia. MLTI Lab begins operations.

Lee: 'AI-enhanced sociocultural analysis of keyboard access in CSCL: Proxy, gatekeeper, or mediator of intellectual influence?' General Proceedings of the ISLS Annual Meeting 2025.

Nominated for the Advanced Technologies for Learning / Learning Sciences (ATL/LS) Special Interest Groups' Best Student Paper Award at AERA 2025 for 'Exploring keyboard interactions and power dynamics in collaborative groups using AI for tracking human activity' (Lee, Celedón-Pattichis, Jatla, Pattichis). Denver, CO.

Lee: 'Table dynamics: AI-enhanced analysis of keyboard access and power dynamics in collaborative STEM learning groups.' Companion Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, pp. 325–331. Society for Learning Analytics Research.