Lili Yan, Ph.D. is a learning scientist and research associate in the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University.
Lili’s research broadly examines how people learn through interactions that span natural, cultural, and technology-supported learning environments. Her current work explores how AI and other emerging technologies can be leveraged to design learning environments that nourish meaningful connections between learners, communities, and knowledge systems. Committed to collaborative education research, Lili’s scholarship engages in design and community-based approaches and research-practice partnerships. These methods cultivate collaboration among teams of multicultural community knowledge holders, educators, designers, and researchers, towards the shared goal of broadening ways of knowing in technology-mediated learning environments.
Lili is currently the principal investigator (PI) of an AI literacy project funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States, which aims to build multicultural and multi-sector partnerships that center culture in development of AI literacy guides. Committed to leadership and service, Lili currently serves as the early career researcher on the editorial board of the British Journal of Educational Technology and as award chair for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Instructional Technology Special Interest Group (SIG).