The people behind the questions.

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. Lee positions herself as a scholar aiming to bridge the fields of learning sciences and learning analytics. Her interdisciplinary and multilingual background spans K-12 education, statistics and programming, learning sciences, and STEM education. Her work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, including the Journal of Learning Analytics, Educational Researcher, Springer Nature Computer Science, and the Bilingual Research Journal. She has been the recipient of numerous esteemed awards and honors, including three national government awards for distinguished achievements in science and ICT, education, and equity, such as the Talent Award of Korea, conferred by the Minister of the Korean Ministry of Education. In addition to her research, Lee is a founding member and Director of Research for the nonprofit organization, the Society of Technology for Education and Learning Analytics, where she advances efforts to foster responsible and impactful uses of technology in education with practitioners and policymakers.