GRANTS
National Science Foundation (NSF) - PI (awarded, 2025) $74,766
Generative AI ethics design sprint workshop for STEM educator (#2427666)
College of Education’s Inclusive Teaching Grant, Michigan State University - PI (awarded, 2025) $700
AI as a Teaching Facilitator: Empowering Education Faculty to Integrate AI for Inclusive Classrooms
Community Engaged Research Fellowship Grant, Michigan State University - PI (awarded, 2025) $7,500
Culturally responsive AI for multilingual equity: Addressing the needs of immigrant and refugee communities
Catalyst Grant, Michigan State University - PI (awarded, 2025) $10,000
Advancing student success and equity through personalized learning / AI tutoring (Tailored Tutor/HiTA)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Scholar/Fellow (awarded, 2025) $650,000
Emergent Leadership Lab, Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI); HuMetricsHSS project
Statler Foundation - PI (awarded, 2025) $5,000
Enhancing hotel industry workforce readiness: A comprehensive study of impacts of
hospitality business students’ internship experiences and outcomes (#015605)
MSU Provost’s Undergraduate Research (CAL-URI) Grant - PI (awarded, 2025) $1,000
Designing a digital mini-textbook to create an authentic curriculum: Students as co-designers
Learning Communities, Office of Faculty & Academic Staff Development - PI (awarded, 2025) $1,000
AI in language, learning, and education: Ethics, research, pedagogical innovation
Inclusive Teaching Grant, MSU College of Education - PI (coPI: Yilun Jiang; awarded, 2025) $700
AI as a teaching facilitator: Empowering education faculty to integrate AI for inclusive classrooms
Korean Education Center in Los Angeles (KECLA) Research Grant - PI (awarded, 2025) $700
Korean research lab: Creating multimodal modules for language learning
Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership - PI (awarded, 2024) $4,000
AI ethics and self-regulated learning (SRL) training module for business students
Catalyst Grant, Michigan State University - PI (awarded, 2024) $10,000
Fostering student-driven learning & innovative performance in design education through generative AI
Korean-American Educational Researchers Association (K-AERA) - PI (awarded, 2024) $2,000
Negotiating identity: Portrayals of Korean-American Kyopos and Kyopomal in South Korean media
and their impact on youth identity development
Provost Cillag Endowment Funds - coPI/lead researcher (awarded, 2024-2029) $720,000
Holocaust and genocide curriculum teacher fellowship
National Science Foundation - Researcher (PI Kirby; awarded, 2023) $399,186
Improving learning outcomes and equity in blended online and face-to-face learning
U.S. Department of Education - Co-investigator (awarded, multi-year project: 2014-2019)
HSI STEM grant, Oxnard College, Institutional Effectiveness Division $6,000,000
Title III Part F grant, Oxnard College, Institutional Effectiveness Division $6,000,000
Title V Student Success grant, Oxnard College, Institutional Effectiveness Division $6,000,000
Foundation of Child Development - Researcher (awarded, 2008) $150,000
Dual immersion program grant, Dr. Jin Sook Lee Lab, University of California - Santa Barbara
NSF Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning - coPI (pending, 2026) $900,000
Generative AI tutoring as a pedagogical improvement tool for instructors and students
Spencer Foundation Vision Grant - PI (pending, 2026) $75,000
Critical AI integration in the classroom: A two-year fellowship collaboration of K-12 and 13-16 educators
Spencer Foundation Vision Grant - Consultant (pending, 2026) $75,000
Transforming heritage language education for Korean American children through community-based participatory research
Spencer Foundation - Co-investigator (pending, 2025) $49,965
Challenges of Holocaust education in Michigan schools: Teacher perspectives and experiences
National Center for Education Research (NCER) / IES - Co-PI (pending, 2025) $10,000,000
GATHER at the Gateway: Generative AI for teaching in higher education research in gateway course contexts
National Center for Education Research (NCER) / IES - Co-PI (pending, 2024) $1,990,125
Investigating academic outcomes of generative AI tutoring for first-year undergraduates
National Science Foundation - Co-PI (not funded/competitive to resubmit, 2024) $1,086,248
Supporting broad career pathways with digital pedagogy STEM education research
Schmidt Sciences, Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute - PI (not funded, 2025) $416,800
MSU Institute for the Humanities in Artificial Intelligence (IHAI)
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Collaboration, Learning, & Engagement (not funded, 2025) $15,000
Human-AI interactional data methods: Building a cross-disciplinary, multimodal toolkit for GenAI research
The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) - PI (not funded, 2024) $30,000
Investigating the well-being of refugees in Michigan and its alignment with current Michigan policies and services
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grants, Michigan State University - PI (not funded, 2024) $15,000
Expanding DEI efforts by empowering international students’ linguistic journey
Engaged Scholarship Consortium (ESC) Grant - PI (not funded, 2024) $5,000
Building delightful bridges: Examining refugees & immigrants’ healthcare experiences to deliver culturally competent care
Google - PI (not funded, 2024) $99,962
Developing methodologies for observing and analyzing generative AI use in the K-12 classroom:
Merging industry and education qualitative research practices
Google - co-PI (not funded, 2024) $100,000
Advancing educator development with asynchronous generative AI workshops
Spencer Foundation - Researcher (PI Kirby; not funded, 2023) $179,000
Blended course design: Impacts on student learning outcomes and on students with disabilities
Spencer Foundation - PI (not funded, 2023) $50,000
Reliability and efficiency of generative artificial intelligence as a supplementary tool for analyzing
student feedback