Education Background
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Expected graduation date: May 2027

M.A. in Art Education, Columbia University, New York, NY, Sept 2020 – May 2022

B.S. in Marketing, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, Sept 2019 – May 2020

B.S in Cultural Industry Mgmt, Communication University of China, Beijing, China, Sept 2016 - June 2019

Research Experience
• Conference:
(Poster) Wei, S.* and Bi, R.(2023), Exploring the Implementation of NLP Topic Modeling for Understanding the Dynamics of Informal Learning in an AI Painting Community, in the proceedings of International Conference of Educational Data Mining. EDM'23
(Poster) Cai, Z. and Wei, S.*(2022), Examining Learners’ Cognitive Presence in “Danmaku”, an Emerging Commenting System, in the proceedings of Annual meeting of International Conference of Learning Science, Computer-supported Collaborative Learning. CSCL’22

Intern Experience
Teaching Assistant@Tsinghua University
Jan 2021 - Present, Remote
Coordinated with Sotheby’s Institute of Art with online course schedule, negotiating with professor’s time and overcoming difficulty of students and professors were in different time zones.
Planned and created marketing materials and promotional videos, a 2-min advertising campaign.
Modified and localized Chinese version of Art History and Art Business course plan on Canvas through inviting Chinese art history and business scholars to bridge students’ learning with prior knowledge on Chinese art history and art market.
At the preparation phase, translated course captions from Sotheby’s Institute of Art to Chinese; During the course, consecutive translated professor’s instruction to Chinese students.
Helped professors answer students’ problems after class, explained details of assignments, and coped with technical issues.
Designed a feedback survey with teammates to collect students’ learning experience and improved course quality through 1v1 conversations. Outstanding students were selected to speak about their learning experience on social media.

Communication & Education Intern@Museum of Chinese in America
Jun 2020 - Sept 2020, New York, NY
Helped MoCA build up Google Arts and Culture page from zero to 100%, including exploring the workflow of Google Arts & Culture and instructing colleges to work on this platform. Filed and uploaded more than 100 collections and their data to Google Arts and Culture.
Investigated the museum's daily operation and content production on the TikTok.
Checked and collected relevant news and releases for the organization and reported weekly.

Museum Education Volunteer@Inside-Out Art Museum
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019. Beijing, China
Participated in museum daily guides with Chinese and English dual language for diverse visitors, and attracted 3 visitors to become our volunteer team members.
Wrote review articles for the events held by the museum for a computer game discussion panel.

Video Editor@China Daily
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018, Beijing, China
Edited Chinese short video and streamed to official oversea platforms, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Reported daily view data and researched on possible hot topics for incoming videos, and found topics such as excited Chinese Sports will attract more international views, and affecting short clips will catch more domestic audience’s eyes.
Collected and translated daily oversea news and short clips, which attracted more than 1,000,000 views on Chinese mainstream social platforms, Weibo.
Editorial Intern CCTV International Channel Jun 2017 - Sept 2017, Beijing, China
Planned daily introductory articles on WeChat and Weibo’s official account.
Wrote show introductions and relevant academic-oriented and historical-relevant articles weekly, getting more than 20,000 new followers in 2 months.
Designed special social media interactive activities on Mid-autumn festival to engage more audience to participate in the discussion about the show.

Honors and Awards
2022, Winner of A. L. Dua Endowed Scholarship in Instructional Systems scholarship in the amount of $5,000.00 for the Fall 2022/Spring 2023 term(s)
2022, Winner of Teachers College Scholarship in the amount of $200 for the participation of International Soceity of Learning Science
2019, Winner of The Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship, New York Institute of Technology, Exploring museums in western coast, $2,000
2018 - 2020, Three years named to the Presidential Honor List of New York Institute of Technology
2018, Winner of The Sony Scholarship, Communication University of China Television Station, $1,000

Skills & Interests
Software: Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Suites, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut, Xmind, Slack, and Trello
Educational Coding: Proficient in Scratch, Pencil Code, and TurtleArt / Stitch, experience in Micro:Bit
Data Analysis: Experience in Tableau, SPSS, R and Python
Interest: Volleyball, Barre, Surfing, and Museum