Talks, awards,
and lab dispatches.

Pattichis, Panayides, Lee, and Celedón-Pattichis present at the 2026 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers on integrating secondary-school mathematics with AI and machine learning through Python programming and digital image processing. Pacific Grove, CA.

Our Multimodal Futures project is hiring a funded Undergraduate Research Assistant. Students interested in global education, responsible AI, and K-12 STEM education are encouraged to apply. Applications are due July 29, 2026.

Lee, Kwon, Kim, Sung, Choi, Yang, Kim, and Lujan present 'Influence and negotiation in co-designing an AI-enhanced Multimodal Learning Analytics platform for secondary STEM classrooms' in the Proceedings of the Impactful and Responsible AI Systems for Education Workshop (IRAISE) at the Festival of Learning 2026. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.

Three newly funded projects, two new undergraduate research assistants, two funded openings (PhD and undergraduate research assistant positions), and upcoming presentations at ISLS 2026.

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

We are delighted to welcome two undergraduate research assistants, Camyla Gonzalez and Dong-Geon Kim, to the Multimodal STEM+AI Classrooms project.

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

Awarded $37,000 for 'Creating Open Access Textbook for Learning Theories and Practices: Past, Present, and Future.' 2026–2029. Co-PI (PI: Jinhee Kim, Old Dominion University).

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.