{"id":32345,"date":"2024-04-16T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=32345"},"modified":"2024-04-17T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:45:01","slug":"2024-ai-and-ed-initiative-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2024\/04\/16\/2024-ai-and-ed-initiative-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the 2024 AI and Education Initiative Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Four Faculty Research Grants and Four Graduate Student Fellows Awarded<\/h3>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/centers-initiatives-labs\/ai-and-education-initiative\/\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI and Education Initiative<\/a>\u00a0is pleased to announce the recipients of its <span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/funding-opportunity-ai-and-education-faculty-research-grant\/\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty Research Grants<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/funding-opportunity-ai-and-education-doctoral-fellowship\/\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctoral Fellowships<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>These two funding programs were launched to support\u00a0<span>evolving research efforts at the intersection of \u00a0artificial intelligence (AI) and education at Boston University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us as we celebrate and recognize the faculty and students selected for these awards. The <span>AI and Education Initiative and<\/span>\u00a0these awards are funded by Hariri Institute for Computing &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/\">Wheelock College of Education and Human Development<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>AI and Education Faculty Research Grants<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education_Faculty_Horizontal_Overview-636x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32361 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education_Faculty_Horizontal_Overview-636x358.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education_Faculty_Horizontal_Overview-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education_Faculty_Horizontal_Overview-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education_Faculty_Horizontal_Overview-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education_Faculty_Horizontal_Overview-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our 2024 Faculty Research Grant recipients are:<strong>\u00a0Leslie Dietiker,<\/strong> Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor in Mathematics Education, BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development;\u00a0<strong>Kathy MinHye Kim<\/strong>, Clinical Assistant Professor of TESOL &amp; Applied Linguistics and Director of the Second Language Acquisition Lab, BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development;\u00a0<strong>TJ McKenna<\/strong>, Director of the Center for STEM Professional Learning at Scale and Lecturer in Science education, BU Wheelock College of Education and Human Development; and\u00a0<strong>Zachary (Zach) Rossetti<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Special Education, BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about our faculty grant recipients and their projects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2024-faculty-grant-award-recipients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>AI and Education Graduate Student Fellows<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education-Awards-Doctoral-Updated_long-636x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32354 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education-Awards-Doctoral-Updated_long-636x358.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education-Awards-Doctoral-Updated_long-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education-Awards-Doctoral-Updated_long-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education-Awards-Doctoral-Updated_long-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2024\/04\/AI-and-Education-Awards-Doctoral-Updated_long-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our 2024 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI and Education Initiative<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graduate Student Fellows are<\/span>: <strong>Erin Barno<\/strong>, Ph.D. candidate, mathematics education, BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development;\u00a0<strong>Erning (Henry) Chen<\/strong>, Ph.D. candidate, language &amp; literacy\u00a0education<em>, <\/em>BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Developmen;\u00a0<strong>Zhongkai Shangguan<\/strong>, Ph.D. candidate, electrical and computer engineering, BU College of Engineering; and\u00a0<strong>Hao Yu<\/strong>, Ph.D. candidate, computer science at BU College of Arts &amp; Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about our 2024 AI and Education Initiative Doctoral Fellows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/ai-and-education-2024-doctoral-fellowships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>The AI and Education Initiative catalyzes research in AI-driven innovations that impact equitable learning, education, and human development. To learn more about the AI and Education Initiative, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/centers-initiatives-labs\/ai-and-education-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> or email Naomi Caselli, director of the AI and Education Initiative, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nkc@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nkc@bu.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Faculty Research Grants and Four Graduate Student Fellows Awarded The AI and Education Initiative\u00a0is pleased to announce the recipients of its Faculty Research Grants\u00a0and Doctoral Fellowships.\u00a0These two funding programs were launched to support\u00a0evolving research efforts at the intersection of \u00a0artificial intelligence (AI) and education at Boston University.\u00a0\u00a0Join us as we celebrate and recognize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11716,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32345"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32345\/revisions\/32422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}