Grants

Research Support

Grant work connects AI tool-building, workforce learning, and equitable access.

My funding work spans awarded collaborative grants, institutional seed funding, and multi-institution proposals. I contribute research design, AI-in-education framing, evaluation plans, instructional design, and proposal writing.

$1M+ Awarded collaborative support

$4M+ Under review or resubmission

Co-PI / Lead writer Proposal leadership roles

Awarded Research Support

Awarded · 2023-2027

NSF Collaborative Research: T3-CIDERS

Amount: $1,000,000 · Lead PIs: Hongyi Wu and Masha Sosonkina · Role: research evaluation, instructional design, and training material development.

Contributed to cyberinfrastructure training and workforce development, including pedagogical training sessions during the project workshop in Arizona in January 2026.

Awarded · 2026-2027

Texas A&M CEHD Emerge AI Grant: TRAIN-AI

Amount: $50,000 · Lead PI: Min Yang · Role: Co-PI.

Supports a cascading train-the-trainer model for K-16 AI competency and tool development, including AI tool development, curriculum design, and instructional design across phases.

Awarded · 2026

Purdue VIP Seeding Solutions: AI-Powered Personalized Support for Working Adult Online Learners

Amount: $2,000 · Lead PIs: Qian Qiu and William Zakharov · Partner: Purdue Global · Role: Graduate mentor.

Contributed instructional design framing, evaluation design, and proposal development for AI-supported online learner support.

Under Review & Resubmission Pipeline

Under review

Spencer Foundation RPP Grant: IMPACT Partnership

Amount: $399,615 · Lead PI: Min Yang · Role: Co-PI.

Equitable cybersecurity education for underserved secondary schools, with methodological and AI-in-education expertise contributed to the research design.

Under review · 2026-2028

AERA-NSF Research Grants Program: Measuring Tutor Moves and Mathematical Reasoning

Amount: $35,000 · Lead PI: Min Yang · Role: Co-PI / Project Lead.

Coordinates codebook development, gold-standard annotation, and quantitative analysis for AI-supported tutoring research.

Competitive · Resubmitting

NSF IMPACT Cybersecurity Training

Amount: $3,200,000 · Lead PI: Min Yang.

Contributed brainstorming, planning, proposal writing, AI-enabled instructional components, and evaluation metrics for cybersecurity pathways.

Competitive · Resubmitting

NSF SEED Cybersecurity Agriculture Education

Amount: $1,000,000 · Lead PIs: Peng Jiang and Min Yang.

Contributed to curriculum ideation, formative assessment planning, learner persona development, and proposal writing.

Proposal Leadership & Competitive Submissions

Resubmitting

Spencer Vision Grant: Transforming Online Learning Through AI Presence

Amount: $74,729 · Lead PI: Victoria Lowell.

Initiated the concept and served as lead writer for the full proposal, including instrument design, budget outline, and cross-campus coordination.

Resubmitting

Spencer Small Grant: Global Language Learners Using GenAI Tools

Amount: $50,000 · Lead PI: Victoria Lowell.

Initiated the project and served as lead writer, co-leading the study design and evaluation plan.

Finalist

Spencer Small Grant: Exploring Inventions in Self-Directed Language Learning

Amount: $50,000 · Lead PI: Curtis J. Bonk.

Served as project lead and primary writer for the proposal with Curtis Bonk and Xiaojing Kou.