My professional goal is to pursue a faculty career in higher education. I hope to build a career that brings together research, teaching, mentoring, and academic service. My broad interests lie in artificial intelligence in education, collaborative learning, and human–AI interaction. These areas continue to change as technologies become more deeply integrated into how people learn, communicate, and work together. I want to remain close to these changes and study the questions they create for learners and educators. Through this work, I hope to contribute to the thoughtful use of emerging technologies in education and to connect research with meaningful educational practice.
Research will remain a central part of the career I hope to build. I am interested in how people learn, collaborate, and make decisions in technology-supported environments, especially as AI becomes a more active part of those environments. I hope to develop a research program that connects learning sciences with emerging technologies and draws on different theoretical and methodological perspectives. I am also interested in working across disciplines, since questions about AI and learning increasingly extend beyond the boundaries of a single field. Over time, I hope to lead collaborative projects, pursue external funding, and contribute research that is useful to both scholarly communities and educational practice. Most importantly, I want to keep asking questions that grow from genuine curiosity and matter to the people and contexts I study.
Teaching and mentoring are equally important to the kind of faculty member I hope to become. My experiences as a teaching assistant, course developer, and lecturer have shown me that teaching involves much more than presenting content. It requires listening to learners, understanding where they struggle, and making thoughtful decisions about activities, resources, feedback, and assessment. As a faculty member, I hope to teach courses related to instructional design, learning sciences, educational technology, research methods, and AI in education. I also want to involve students in research and give them opportunities to develop their own questions and ideas. I benefited greatly from mentors who welcomed my curiosity and allowed me to learn through participation. I hope to create a similarly supportive environment for the students I work with in the future.
I also see service and collaboration as an important part of academic life. Through peer review, conference participation, research collaboration, and other forms of academic service, I have begun to understand how scholarly communities are built through many different kinds of contributions. In the future, I hope to contribute to professional organizations, departmental and university initiatives, peer review, and interdisciplinary projects. I value opportunities to work with people who bring different methodological, disciplinary, and cultural perspectives to educational questions. As I gain experience, I would also like to support students and early-career scholars who are finding their own paths into research. I hope to become a thoughtful and dependable member of the academic communities I join, and to continue learning from the people around me.