2.20.2026 CISI Funding

Our lab is excited to share that “Roots of Resilience: Building a University–School–Community Partnership for Child Well-being and Early AI Literacy” has been awarded a University at Buffalo CTSI Community Partnership Development Seed Grant. In partnership with Buffalo Public School #99 and the Buffalo Urban League, this project will support children’s well-being, resilience, and early AI literacy through playful, community-engaged learning. Read more

2.18.2026 Happy the Year of the Horse!
We had a lab dinner to celebrate the Chinese New Year together. Wishing everyone a joyful, healthy, and successful Year of the Fire Horse! May it bring new energy, good luck, and wonderful moments ahead!

2.13.2026 ICLS 2026 Acceptance

Our lab is excited to share that we’ve had two pieces accepted to ICLS 2026: the symposium paper “Children, Teachers, and Robots Network: A Sociomaterial Analysis of Agency in Early Childhood Classrooms” and the short paper “Parental Multimodal Revoicing: Guiding Children in Computational Thinking Learning.”