Bingyi Han, Ph.D.

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Musician

Hello!

I am Bingyi (pronounced Bing-yee). I do research and music.

RESEARCH (SIDE A). I am a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Saarland University's Learning to Adapt, Learning with Agency Lab. I also contribute to the AI and the Future of Education at University of Melbourne's Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE).

I study how interacting with AI shapes people's thinking, learning, and agency, and how to design AI that supports human capabilities. My current work focuses on conversational AI and critical thinking.

SOUND & SELF (SIDE B). Music is my other language. I write what I feel, and I sing it into being. My music traces my search for self and the quiet truths of being human.

Through both, I explore the world and my place within it.

Research Interests:

Thinking and Learning with AI
Human Knowing and Agency
AI Design for Human Capabilities

For thesis applications, please use our lab portal. I receive quite a few emails and can’t always reply to each one, though I do appreciate you reaching out ;) Thanks for understanding!

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News & What's Ahead

[May 28 2026] Awarded START Funding from Saarland University to investigate how conversational AI agents shape critical thinking in learning.

[Apr 15 2026] Selected as a Young Researcher for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2026!

Research Trajectory

Affiliation

🏫 Humboldt Postdoc Fellow| Department of Computer Science, Saarland University. [Mar 2026 - Feb 2028]

- Hosted by Prof. Tomohiro Nagashima.
- Saarbrücken, Germany

🏫 DAAD Visiting Postdoc Fellow | Centre for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. [Dec 2025 - Jan 2026]

Hosted by Prof. Iyad Rahwan.
Berlin, Germany

🏫 PhD | Human-Computer Interaction Group. The University of Melbourne. [April 2021 - Oct 2025]

Ph.D research under supervision by Prof. George Buchanan, A/Prof Dana Mckay, Dr Simon Coghlan, and Prof. Wally Smith.
Melbourne, Australia

Fellowships

✨ Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

2026-2028

✨ DAAD Postdoc-NeT-AI Research Fellow, DAAD.

2025

✨ DAAD AINet Fellow in Human-centered AI. DAAD.

2023

Selected Awards & Programs

✨ Selected Young Researcher for Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2026.

✨ Best Paper Award at ACM CHI Conference 2026 [paper].

✨ Selected PhD Thinker of the Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellowship PhD Thinker Program. 2023.

✨ Gary Marsden Awards, SIGCHI 2025.

✨ Gitte Lindgaard Award (Best Paper Award) OzCHI Conference 2022.

Education Bio

🎓 PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2025

Thesis: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for Analysing Student Learning Behaviour: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective. [Open access PhD thesis].

🎓 Master of Information Systems (Distinction), University of Melbourne, Australia, 2020

🎓 Visiting Undergraduate, Lancaster University, UK, 2016-2017

🎓 Bachelor of Information Systems, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China, 2017

A Personal Note:

Before starting my master’s degree, my early twenties were shaped less by formal study and more by life outside the campus. I spent much of that time playing in bands, traveling solo, couchsurfing, and meeting people from very different walks of life across the Pacific, Europe and North Africa. Those experiences profoundly shaped how I see the world - culturally, socially, and ultimately how I approach research today.

Academic Engagement and Outreach

Conference Organising Committee

Organizer and Facilitator, "What skills should humans develop as AI becomes capable of doing more of our tasks?", Unconference Session, Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany, 18th Sep, 2026.
Communications & Social Media Chair, MUM Conference 2025。

Journal and Conference Reviewing

The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)
The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIEd)
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS)
Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OZCHI)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIIE)

Community and Leadership

Associate of Centre for AI & Digital Ethics (CAIDE) on AI and the Future of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2022 - now.
Ph.D. Representative of Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) 2022-2023.
The Asia-Pacific Regional Representative and Membership Committee of The International Learning Sciences Student Association (ILSSA) since 2022-2023.
Co-Founder and Executive Officer of Melbourne Information Systems Graduate Association (MISGA), 2018- 2019.

Invited Talks and Presentations

Keynote Speech

Keynote speaker, Workshop on Fairness and Ethics in AI for Education, AIEd Conference, Palermo, Italy, 26th Jul 2025.

Forum

Selected Young Researcher, Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany, 12th Sep - 18th Sep, 2026.
Participator, IAA+Soc Forum (Intelligence Augmentation and Amplification plus Society), Paris, France, 3rd Mar, 2026

Seminar Talks

Presenter, "Socratic Conversational AI for Critical Thinking", HCI Seminar, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Salzburg University, Austria, 30th Jun, 2026.
Presenter, “The Ethical Challenges of AI in Education: A Stakeholder Perspective”, CIS seminar, Melbourne, Australia, 15th Nov, 2024.
Presenter, “Ethical and Sociotechnical Implications of AI in Education”, PhD Thinker Program, Adelaide, Australia, 11th Oct 2023
Presenter, “Potential Impacts of Implementing AI Monitoring in Higher Education”, ML/AI Meetup Talk Melbourne, Australia, 16th Oct 2023.
Presenter, “Ethical Challenges of AI in Education”, AI Ethics Summer Academy in Centre for AI & Digital Ethics, Melbourne, Australia, 9th Dec 2021.
Presenter, “Impacts of Adopting AI in Education”, Ph.D. in AI Ethics Roundtable Workshop on Responsible AI, Online, 19th Oct 2021.

Conference Presentations

Presenter, “AI Sensing and Intervention in Higher Education: Student Perceptions of Learning Impacts, Affective Responses, and Ethical Priorities.”, CHI ’26, Barcelona, Spain, 14th April, 2026.
Presenter, “Ethical and Pedagogical Impacts of AI in Education”, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Tokyo, Japan, 29th Jun 2023.
Presenter, “Learning in the Panopticon: Examining the Potential Impacts of AI Monitoring on Students”, the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI ’22), Canberra, Australia, 29th Nov 2022.
Presenter, “Emotional Experience of AI in Education”, CHI 2022 Workshop on The Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction, Online, 13th Apr 2022.

Media Coverage:

Magazine article, When AI Reshapes the Classrooms, 2nd Feb 2026, Published on The Science Matters.
Magazine article, Being watched by AI in the classroom: Listening to the voices of students. By Bingyi Han, 13th Oct 2025, Published on Medium.
Magazine report, Information Cocoon, Privacy Leakage…: How to Deal with the Ethical Risks Brought by Artificial Intelligence? By Bingyi Han and Zhong Su, Sep 5th, 2022, Published on Digital Technology Insights. Ali Research Institute.
Magazine report, Privacy-Preserving Computing: Privacy Protection in the Digital Age. By Bingyi Han and Zhong Su, Dec 9th, 2022, Published on Digital Technology Insights. Ali Research Institute.

Teaching / Students

Students Supervised

Sina Elahi Manesh, HiWi, PhD Student in Computer Science, Saarland University. (2026 - now)
Hayat Awais Malik, HiWi, Master student in Bioinformatics, Saarland University. (2026 - now)
Hendrik Akyol, HiWi, Bachelor Student in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Saarland University. (2026 - now)
Chaeeun Lee, Master Thesis, Educational Technology, Saarland University. (2026 - now)
Lily Nazari, Master Thesis, Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University. (2026 - now)
Vanshika Garg, Master Thesis, Computer Science, Saarland University. (2026 - now)

Teaching

Saarland University · Winter Semester 2026–27 · Instructor

From Research Ideas to Empirical Study Designs in Human–AI Interaction — Seminar
Grundlagen der Medieninformatik — Guest Lecturer

University of Melbourne · Postgraduate Subject 2022-25 · Academic Tutor

Industrial Engagement

💼 Research Assistant, Ali Research Institute, Alibaba Group, 2022

Supervised by Dr Zhong Su, I led two research projects: 1) Ethical implications of AI and big data. 2) Industrial research regarding Privacy-Preserving Computing.

Media Coverage:

Information Cocoon, Privacy Leakage…: How to Deal with the Ethical Risks Brought by Artificial Intelligence? By Bingyi Han and Zhong Su, Sep 5th, 2022, Published on Digital Technology Insights. Ali Research Institute
Privacy-Preserving Computing: Privacy Protection in the Digital Age. By Bingyi Han and Zhong Su, Dec 9th, 2022, Published on Digital Technology Insights. Ali Research Institute

💼 IT Consultant Intern, Daimler Mercedes-Me-Connect project, KPMG China, 2018-2019

Supported smart-home integration for the Mercedes-Me-Connect app: requirements analysis, usability/integration testing, workflow/use-case documentation, and UX/performance reporting.

Contact Me

bhan at cs.uni-saarland.de | LinkedIn | Google Scholar

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