REU Site Faculty Mentors

Heather Bachman

Department: Education

Topic area: How can we increase young children's access to opportunities to learn math, particularly at home and in preschool?

Heather's profile

Raquel Coelho

Department: Computing and Information

Topic area: How can emerging technologies support learning in STEM and the humanities? What kinds of support do learners need to engage critically with complex and emerging technologies (AI/NLP/quantum) that will shape the future?

Raquel's lab website

Daphne Henry

Department: Psychology

Topic area: How do race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status intersect to shape children's academic development?

Daphne's profile

Alan Lesgold

Department: Psychology

Topic area: Higher education - How can we use Large Language Models to improve higher education, with an emphasis on student experience and performance?

Alan's profile

Diana Leyva

Department: Psychology

Topic area: How historically minoritized families help their children to develop language, literacy and math skills and succeed in school.

Diana's lab website

Lindsay Clare Matsumura

Department: Education

Topic area: How can technology support the development of adaptive expertise? How do teachers and literacy coaches learn to implement dialogic practices?

Lindsay's profile

Angela Stewart

Department: Department of Informatics and Network Science

Topic area: How to create equitable STEM learning experiences and technologies.

Angela's profile

Erin Walker

Department: Computer Science

Topic area: How to create technology-enhanced learning experiences. The lab has a particular focus on social learning (e.g., youth working in groups) and culturally-responsive designs.

Erin's profile

Tessa Warren

Department: Psychology

Topic area: Language and World knowledge: How do people with and without language impairment use their world knowledge about what kinds of things are likely and unlikely to happen to support their use of language? How can we use AI to help develop tools to measure world knowledge and potentially help treat language impairment?

Tessa's lab website