| Oct 2026 | Co-authored paper on AI–human writing score agreement in primary grades presented in a paper session at NCME AIME-Con 2026 in Pittsburgh. |
| Sep 2026 | Serving as Learning Assistant for EDUC 217 AI and Digital Learning, a graduate course at UC Irvine taught by Prof. Mark Warschauer (Fall 2026). |
| Aug 2026 | Our preprint One Success Isn’t Reliability: ThinkingBox, from my Microsoft internship, is on arXiv (co-first author). |
| Jul 2026 | Three first-author papers at ACL 2026 in San Diego: The Confident Liar (Student Research Workshop), MADRAG (NLP4DH), and Early-Token Confidence (GEM). |
| Jun 2026 | Co-first-authored paper Simulating Students’ Java Programming Errors with Large Language Models published at EDM 2026 in Seoul. |
| Jun 2026 | Received my M.A. in Education from UC Irvine. |
| Jun 2026 | Two papers at the ISLS 2026 Annual Meeting: a teacher-in-the-loop essay-scoring framework (CSCL) and an analysis of instructors’ attitudes toward AI cheating (ICLS). |
| Jun 2026 | Started an Applied Scientist internship with Microsoft Copilot Studio in Redmond, WA. |
| Apr 2026 | Two co-authored papers at LAK26 in Bergen: Disagreement as Data and Voices from the Classroom (companion proceedings). |
| Apr 2026 | Workshop paper The First Tokens Matter presented as a poster at the ICLR 2026 Workshop on Logical Reasoning of Large Language Models. |
| Apr 2026 | Book chapter Fostering Essential 21st-Century Skills Through Cooperative Learning, with Mohammad Reza Keramati, published by Springer. |
| Dec 2025 | Gave a contributed talk, Application of Multi-Agent Systems for Essay Scoring, in the Education Track of the NeurIPS 2025 Education Program in San Diego. |
| Sep 2025 | Started as a Teaching Assistant for EDUC 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings at UC Irvine (Fall 2025). |
| Jul 2025 | Selected to attend the LearnLab Summer School at Carnegie Mellon University (Computer Science Education Research track). |
| Feb 2025 | Co-authored paper iTAG: Easy, Rapid, Automatic Intelligent Tagging for Educational Contents published at CSICC 2025. |
| Jan 2025 | Started my Ph.D. in Education Data Science at UC Irvine and joined the Digital Learning Lab as a graduate student researcher. |
| Nov 2024 | Co-authored paper on automating theory-of-mind assessment with a LLaMA-3 chatbot published at ICCKE 2024. |
| Jan 2024 | First-author article Students’ Reflection on the Effect of Collaborative Learning published in Reflective Practice. |