Sydne Kasle: PhD in Communication Education, first-year MA student in Educational Studies, DATL cohort. Sydne has experience in program planning and management. As a former Director of Debate, Sydne has experience creating, planning, facilitating, and hosting collegiate and high school debate invitationals. Sydne has over 30 years of experience teaching in higher education. She has been a guest presenter for several Offices of Teaching and Learning around the country. Her area of expertise is Human Communication and has applied her knowledge to workforce readiness and development training as well as faculty development. Sydne is currently in the LXD Residency program and looking to expand her own knowledge in the area of UX. Sydne is currently enrolled in the Introduction to UX taught by Mark Newman on the Michigan Online platform. Sydne’s strengths include risk taking, seeking out professional networks, and helping others to get more involved. Sydne is currently enrolled in the EDUC 570 Professional Seminar with around 30 other DATL cohorts. She enjoys providing professional development opportunities for graduate students. As a graduate student at Florida State, Sydne created, planned, and facilitated a GSI pedagogy workshop for her classmates who were new to teaching. Sydne has no problem reaching out to new contacts to ask for support.
Xuechen Liu: First-year MA student in Educational Studies, DATL cohort, BA in Secondary Education. Xuechen has experience teaching at the pre-school, high school, and college levels and she also taught English in Japan. She has a lot of international educational experience. She has been a guest speaker at Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University. Xuechen is interested in Heritage Language Education and she wants to contribute to help heritage language learners maintain their heritage identity, culture and language. Xuechen currently is exploring how technology impacts heritage language education, especially on analyzing language apps for its influence on Heritage Language Education and how we can improve current apps or websites to meet students’ learning needs.
In Son Zeng: Research Fellow in School of Information, the University of Michigan. In Son has 3+ experience in learning analytics, predictive modeling, User Experience, research management and design, and statistical analysis on a broad range of scopes. He has a master’s in Applied Statistics and his area of expertise lies in data analytics, statistical modeling, machine learning and technology-based pedagogy and learning practice. He hosted 3 PyCon conference talks regarding data visualization, data storytelling and probabilistic programming. He used to teach data visualization and data manipulation for online courses hosted by the School of Information, the University of Michigan. He is currently launching a MOOC specialization of Bayesian Thinking, Bayesian Estimation and Bayesian Experimentation on Coursera.
Program Committee
Sujude Alzoubi: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: sujudea@umich.edu
Melissa McCurry: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: mmccurry@umich.edu
Arjun Ananda Padmanabhan: School of Public Health, the University of Michigan. Email: aarjun@umich.edu
Xinyu Liu: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: lxinyu@umich.edu
Sarah Hu: School of Information, the University of Michigan. Email: hufz@umich.edu
Anshika Saxena: School of Information, the University of Michigan. Email: sanshika@umich.edu
Tiffany Cheng: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: hannc@umich.edu
Takuma Terada: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: takuma@umich.edu
Evan Chavez: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: zevahc@umich.edu
Shivani Gandhi: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: shivan@umich.edu
Aya Isaac: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: ayais@umich.edu
Zhiquing Zheng: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: zhiqingz@umich.edu
Ye Eun Jeong: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: yenjeong@umich.edu
Lisa Bergum: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: bergum@umich.edu
Sasha Kolodkin: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: kolodkin@umich.edu
Xuechan Dai: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: xuechan@umich.edu
Hyein Jee: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: hijee@umich.edu
Sophia Boettcher: School of Public Health, the University of Michigan. Email: sboettch@umich.edu
Lu Wang: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: luluwang@umich.edu
Ashruti Tuteja: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: tashruti@umich.edu
Xuechen Liu: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: liuxuech@umich.edu
Sydne Kasle: School of Education, the University of Michigan. Email: sydnek@umich.edu
In Son Zeng: College of Literature, Science and Art, School of Information, the University of Michigan. Email: insonz@umich.edu
