Dr. Mingyu Feng

Dr. Mingyu Feng serves as Research Director at WestEd. Feng serves as Principal Investigator or Project Director on several large-scale Institutes of Education Sciences (IES), Education and Innovation Research (EIR), and National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. These projects aim to develop transformative education interventions, leveraging the most advanced large language models (LLM) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, to use machine learning and multimodal analysis to scaffold science modeling, or to investigate the efficacy of digital math and science interventions in kindergarten, elementary, and middle schools. Previously, she has also led foundational research investigating student perseverance, persistence, and engagement in STEM learning and projects that established researcher-practitioner partnerships with charter schools. As a computer scientist by training, Feng is committed to using technology to help student learning and teacher instruction, especially in STEM, by providing a supportive, personalized experience. She is an expert in educational data mining and learning analytics and has extensive experience in analyzing usage data from different kinds of digital learning systems to understand student learning behaviors and patterns and using leveraging analytics to monitor implementation fidelity of learning interventions.

Dr. Feng received her Ph.D in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.