Research Experiences

($3500 fellowship)

From the start of my freshman Spring (02/2019) to the end of my junior Fall (12/2020), the main focus of my research projects have been on semantic relations. I’ve studied the taxonomic and thematic (or associative relations in some literature) word relations from both developmental and computational aspects.

($500 grant)

In my sophomore year (09/2019~05/2020), I successfully applied to a $500 Small Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) to do an independent study under Dr. Sharon Carver’s supervision and in collaboration with the education department of the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA).

(hourly rate)

During my sophomore winter break (2019), I helped Dr. Lujie (Karen) Chen annotate some multi-modal educational data on math problem-solving in 14 elementary school students.

We unified the rubrics for annotation, kept track of students’ eye gazes, cognitive and affective states, labeled their interaction with parents, and transcribed their conversation using ELAN. This was my first exposure to multimodal educational data mining, which seemed interesting, so I took an intro to machine learning course later in my junior year fall (2020).

In the next semester (2021 Spring), I will be doing independent research on the Grand Challenge First-Year Seminar course 66-129 Unreality: Immersive and Spatial Media with the instructors Dr. Lauren Herckis and Tom Corbett.