PhD students


Kechen DENG
Research interests
- Technology-Enhanced Learning;
- Residential Colleges;
- Learning Communities;
- AI-assisted training
Supervisor: Prof. Kan-Kan CHAN

Yingshi DING
Research interests
- Higher education;
- STEM education;
- Professional vision;
- Stress-coping and maladaptive coping;
- Survey experiments;
- Communities of practice;
- Science communication
Supervisor: Prof. Kan-Kan CHAN

Jieying LU
Research interests
- Technology-enhanced Language Teaching;
- English Language Education (in Higher Education)
Supervisor: Prof. Kan-Kan CHAN

Xiaowen WANG
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in early education;
- Computational thinking and programming in young children;
- Early STEM learning
Supervisor: Prof. Kan-Kan CHAN

Yujia BU
Research interests
- Educational Data Mining;
- Learning Analytics;
- Educational Data Science;
- Educational Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Fu CHEN

Chenyang LI
Research interests
- Educational Data Mining;
- Data Science in Education;
- K-12 AI education
Supervisor: Prof. Fu CHEN

Xiaofei LI
Research interests
- AI literacy development in adolescents: Measurement tool development;
- Predictive factors in mitigating AI inequality;
- Effective AI literacy intervention strategies
Supervisor: Prof. Fu CHEN

Yadi YANG
Research interests
- Large-scale assessment and machine learning to explore students’ social-emotional skills and academic performance
Supervisor: Prof. Fu CHEN

Jindong ZHANG
Research interests
- AI in education;
- Educational data analysis;
- Educational measurement
- Learning analytics
Supervisor: Prof. Fu CHEN

Hengyi CHEN
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd);
- AI agents for teaching and learning;
- XR/VR in education
Supervisor: Prof. Andy-Chun-Wai FAN

Jiyuan ZENG
Research interests
- Learning analytics;
- AI in education;
- Generative AI;
- Educational technology
Supervisor: Prof. Andy-Chun-Wai FAN

Aoge HUANG
Research interests
- Mathematics Education;
- AI Integration in Education;
- Digital Transformation in Education;
- Teacher Professional Development;
- Curriculum Design and Enactment
Supervisor: Prof. Lianghuo FAN

Huansen JIAN
Research interests
- Mathematics Education;
- Equity in education;
- Curriculum design; Pedagogical strategies
Supervisor: Prof. Lianghuo FAN

Guoda LI
Research interests
- History and Pedagogy of Mathematics;
- AI in Mathematics Education
Supervisor: Prof. Lianghuo FAN

Xumai LIN
Research interests
- Mathematical textbooks;
- Teaching with variation
Supervisor: Prof. Lianghuo FAN

Li WANG
Research interests
- AI Literacy for K-12 Students;
- Personalized STEM Learning with AI;
- Learning in Informal STEM Environments
Supervisor: Prof. Chunlian JIANG

Wei CHEN
Research interests
- Multimedia Learning;
- Learning Motivation;
- Learner Engagement
Supervisor: Prof. Lijia LIN

Yuanyuan FENG
Research interests
- Computer Assisted Language Learning;
- AI in Education;
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education
Supervisor: Prof. Lijia LIN

Xiaobo LIU
Research interests
- Chinese education
- Integration of STEAM and AI into Chinese language education
- Teaching and learning Chinese as a second/foreign language
- Self-regulated learning
Supervisor: Prof. Lijia LIN

Rui ZHANG
Research interests
- AI-Powered Learning;
- Digital Literacy;
- AI Ethics
Supervisor: Prof. Lijia LIN

Binbin CAI
Research interests
- Educational Data Mining
- Learning Analytics
- Educational Data Science
- Educational Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Xiufeng LIU

Chengshu LUO
Research interests
- Science identity;
- Teacher identity;
- Science teacher identity;
- Measurement and instrument development; Mixed method
Supervisor: Prof. Xiufeng LIU

Chao WANG
Research interests
- Multimodal large language model in education;
- Creativity assessment;
- STEM education;
- Problem-solving ability
Supervisor: Prof. Xiufeng LIU

Leying JIANG
Research interests
- STEM and Social Emotional Learning;
- STEM education in Early years;
- Informal STEM Activities
Supervisor: Prof. Emily-Pey-Tee OON

Zuokun LI
Research interests
- Collaborative learning;
- Knowledge building;
- STEM education;
- Computational thinking
Supervisor: Prof. Emily-Pey-Tee OON

Tianle DONG
Research interests
- Chemistry education
- AI education and epistemology
Supervisor: Prof. Bing WEI

Zhenghong DU
Research interests
- Integrated Science Curriculum;
- Artificial Intelligence Literacy;
- STEM Teachers Development
Supervisor: Prof. Bing WEI

Zhimeng JIANG
Research interests
- STEM/science identity;
- Science teacher identity;
- STEM career intentions;
- Scientific epistemic beliefs;
- Ontology engineering for education;
- Quantitative methods
Supervisor: Prof. Bing WEI

Huinan LIU
Research interests
- STEM education;
- Science education;
- Chemistry education
Supervisor: Prof. Bing WEI

Jiwei SUN
Research interests
- Science/STEM education;
- Computational thinking;
- Computing education;
- Collaborative learning
Supervisor: Prof. Bing WEI

Ruobing WANG
Research interests
- Systems thinking;
- Interdisciplinary literac;
- AI attitudes
Supervisor: Prof. Bing WEI




