Who We Are

An AI Initiative to Transform STEM+C Education

Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we make the tomorrow of education better!

Center Director

Dr. Xiaoming Zhai, principle investigator, is an associate professor and an esteemed science education expert at the University of Georgia. He focuses on integrating AI and GenAI into science teaching, learning, and assessment to transform k-12 science education.

Learning Environment Development

Yizhu Gao
Assistant Professor
Xianqiao Wang
Professor
Ehsan Latif
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Lihua Tan
Postdoctoral Research Associate

LLMs and GenAgent Development

Gautam Biswas 
Professor
Soheil Kolouri
Assistant Professor
TIanming Liu
Professor
Ninghao liu
Assistant Professor
Jiangang Hao 
Research Director
Matias Rojas
Postdoctoral Researcher

Responsible AI and Teacher PD

Meiyi Ma
Assistant Professor
Lehong Shi
Assistant Research Scientist

Outreach Policy and Leadership

Lei Liu
Research Director
Lydia Liu
Research Director
Cheryl Lavigne
Project Manager
Euvelisse Nicole Jusino Del Valle
Project Manager
Field Watts
Research Associate

Graduate Students

Yifan Zhou
Research Assistant
Zhaojun Ding
Research Assistant
Xuansheng Wu
Research Assistant
JenniferKLeiman
Research Assistant
Hanchen David Wang
Research Assistant
Siwoo Bae
Research Assistant
Naveeduddin Mohammed
Research Assistant
Chayne Thrash
Research Director
Clayton Cohn 
Research Assistant

Advisory Board Members

Jim Pellegrino
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
Will Lorie
Educational assessment specialist, 
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
Logan Fiorella
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Georgia
James Lester
Professor of Goodnight Distinguished University
Anirban Bhattacharyya
Managing Partner at Transcend Education
Chinasa T. Okolo
Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings Institution
David Weintrop
Associate Professor, College of Ed, College of Info Studies, University of Maryland
Aneesha Badrinarayan
Learning Policy Institute
Sahrish Panjwani-Charania
Instructional Coach, Gwinnett County Public Schools

Alumni of the Project

Dorene Medlin
Professor
Takeebie Jefferson Technology specialist
Shuchen Guo
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Gyeongeon Lee
Postdoctoral Research Associate