● ⟶ MLTI Lab / People
The people behind the questions.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Hakeoung Hannah Lee
Assistant Professor of Education (tenure track)
Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education · School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia
Ph.D. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education · 2025
M.S. Statistics · 2024
B.Ed. Elementary Education · 2021
Hakeoung Hannah Lee's scholarship centers on empowering K–12 students, especially multicultural and multilingual learners from marginalized communities, by developing and deploying AI-enhanced multimodal learning analytics approaches in STEM learning contexts. Grounded in sociocultural perspectives, her work centers the experiences of marginalized learners by (1) designing and deploying AI-enhanced multimodal video analysis systems and (2) embedding learning analytics in context, with particular attention to responsible and ethical AI design. A hallmark of her research is its focus on revealing the diverse and complex nature of student participation, which is often oversimplified or misrepresented by existing AI tools that rely solely on text-based or single-modality data.
// reach
hannahlee@virginia.edu434.243.5466
Bavaro Hall 209
417 Emmet St S
Charlottesville, VA 22903
417 Emmet St S
Charlottesville, VA 22903
// elsewhere
UVA bio ↗Google Scholar ↗ORCID ↗ResearchGate ↗LinkedIn ↗CV (PDF) ↓Contributors
●STUDENTS
Jia Lu
Ed.D. Student · Curriculum & Instruction
University of Virginia
Camyla Gonzalez
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Neuroscience (Major)
University of Virginia
Dong-Geon Kim
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Computer Science (Major), Mathematical Sciences (Minor)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
●COLLABORATORS
Miguel Lujan
AI Developer, Data Analyst
United States Department of War
Professor · Bilingual/Bicultural Education
The University of Texas at Austin · United States
Professor · Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of New Mexico · United States
Venkatesh Jatla
Senior Research Associate
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC · United States
Hyun G. Kwon
Research Professor · Community Partner
Korea University · The Society of Technology for Education and Learning Analytics
Jongheon Kim
School Partner
Sejong Academy of Science and Arts · South Korea
Jandi Choi
Junior Designer & Developer
Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation
Hyeri Mel Yang
Incoming Ph.D. Student · Education (Major)
Harvard University · United States
Chaeyeon Kim
Ph.D. Student · Learning Sciences (Major)
University of Wisconsin–Madison · United States
A few of our current collaborators. Current collaborators who would also like to be included—please email Hannah with a profile photo.
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