Student - College of Education

Hakeoung Hannah Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education Program with a focus on Learning Sciences and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2021 - ABD). She received a Master of Science in Statistics from the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research mainly explores learning analytics in the STEM learning context from sociocultural and critical perspectives, with a particular emphasis on co-designing ethical and responsible artificial intelligence (AI) systems for education. By leveraging human-centered, AI-driven tools and approaches, her work seeks to empower learners from marginalized communities. Her dissertation is titled "AI-Enhanced Multimodal Approach for Understanding Group Dynamics Through Verbal, Nonverbal, and Object-Based Interactions in Collaborative Learning".

She has been awarded the Graduate School Full Package Recruitment Fellowship, the Texas New Scholars Fellowship, the Korean Government Scholarship, Gwanjeong Education Foundation Scholarship, the Long Joe and Teresa endowed fellowship and the Addison E. Lee endowed fellowship. Her research was funded by the Learnest Ethical AI Fellowship, Good Systems Graduate Fellowship, PIs' NSF projects, and the STEM Education and C&I departments. Additionally, she has teaching experience at UT Dell Medical School and UT College of Education, as well as internship experience at the United Nations in New York.

Hannah has published in various peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, including the Journal of Learning Analytics, Educational Researcher, Springer Nature Computer Science, the Journal of the Korean Association of Information Education, Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, and Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. She has been the recipient of numerous esteemed accolades and honors. This includes the Talent Award of Korea (awarded by the Minister of the Korean Ministry of Education), the Minister of the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT Award, the Minister of the Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Award, and the President of the National Universities of Education President's Council Award.

Currently, Hannah serves as a reviewer for ICLS, AERA, and the International Journal of STEM Education, and she is a founding member and director of research for the Society of Technology for Education and Learning Analytics (STELA). She is also a member of the board for the Korean Edutech / Learning Sciences Researchers Network (KELS) and previously served as the vice president of the Korean Student Association at the University of Texas at Austin (UTKSA).

To learn more about her work, please visit her personal website: https://www.hakeounghannahlee.com/

Emma Gargroetzi (Supervisor)
Explores the intersection of the sociopolitical and mathematical lives of children with a focus on identity and learning.

Flávio S Azevedo (Committee Member)
Investigates the nature of STEM interests and interest-driven participation and learning, foundations of cognition in STEM disciplines, and learning out of schools.

Catherine Riegle-Crumb (Committee Member)
Focuses on the social construction of gender and racial/ethnic inequality in educational opportunities and experiences in STEM fields from a sociological perspective. Methodological expertise in quantitative research methods and analyses of large scale datasets.

Tia Madkins (Committee Member)
Engages humanizing research approaches to examine equity-focused PK-16 STEM teaching and learning across urban contexts with a focus on Black girls.

Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis (Committee Member)
Focuses on language and cultural influences on teaching and learning mathematics, particularly equity issues involving Latinx students mathematical thinking, the simultaneous learning of English as a second language and math and preparing teachers to work with culturally and linguistically diverse students.