Contact
- Email: hyerin@udel.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Hye Rin Lee is a National Science Foundation STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Education’s School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her research employs a comprehensive approach that combines developmental and learning analytic methods with an integrative theoretical framework from educational, developmental and social psychology to investigate the intricate interplay between short- and long-term motivation and learning.
In particular, she investigates (a) the individual and social characteristics across various contexts that predict minoritized students’ engagement in STEM fields; (b) ways to translate findings from education and psychology research into actionable strategies that foster minoritized students’ engagement in STEM; and (c) innovative research procedures and advanced statistical methods to assist researchers in generating accessible and clear recommendations for naming, measuring and analyzing constructs related to STEM motivation situated in learning contexts.
Currently, Dr. Lee serves as a PI of a National Science Foundation-funded STEM Education grant to understand and improve undergraduate computer science students’ regulation, performance and motivation using digital traces and technologies. Dr. Lee also serves as a research consultant for a National Science Foundation-funded Division of Undergraduate Education grant to test a YouTube role model intervention to improve engineering choice and performance outcomes for community college and transfer college students.
Her research has been published in Motivation and Emotion, Current Psychology, AERA Open, Frontiers in Education, and Journal of Educational and Psychological Research.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Education, University of California, Irvine, CA, 2022
- B.A., Psychology and Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 2018
Professional Experience
- National Science Foundation STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellow, College of Education & Human Development, University of Delaware, 2022 – present
- National Science Foundation STEM Education Research Consultant, School of Education and Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2022 – present
- Visiting Researcher, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education and School of Education and Social Work, Australian Catholic University and The University of Sydney, 2023
- Graduate Research Assistant for Investigating Virtual Learning Environments, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 2021 – 2022
- Graduate Research Assistant for The Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 2018 – 2022
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Education Disciplinary Perspectives, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 2021
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for Media and Information Literacy, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 2020
Recent Grants
- National Science Foundation, STEM Ed PRF: Understanding and Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Regulation, Performance, and Motivation Using Digital Traces and Technologies, PI ($300,000, Grant No. 2222228), 2022 – 2024
- National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education, UC Irvine Pathways to Engineering Collaborative Project, Consultant (PI: Lorenzo Valdevit, $4,999,450, Grant No. 1742627), 2022 – 2024
- National Science Foundation, Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, Determining Community Needs for Accessibility Tools that Facilitate Programming Education and Workforce Readiness for Persons with Disabilities, Advisory Board (PI: Maja Mataric, $698,161, Grant No. 2236320), 2022 – 2023
- Public Impact Fellowship, University of California, Irvine ($1,000), 2021
- SEISMIC Measurement Fellowship, A closer look at students’ introductory STEM courses across universities, University of Michigan ($5,000), 2021
- Associated Graduate Students Travel Grant, University of California, Irvine ($250), 2021
- Inclusive Excellence Ambassador Fellowship, University of California, Irvine ($5,000), 2020
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, STEM Education, Leveraging YouTube to increase women’s physics identity and motivation, PI ($102,000, Grant No. DGE-1839285), 2019- 2023
Recent Professional Awards
- National Science Foundation Quantitative Research Methods for STEM Education Scholar, University of Maryland, College Park, 2023
- Tom Angell Fellowship Nominee, University of California, Irvine, 2022
- Most Promising Future Faculty Award Nominee, University of California, Irvine, 2022
- Certificate of Preparing for a Faculty Career, University of California, Irvine, 2022
- AERA Division C Equity and Inclusion “Shark Tank” Finalist, American Education Research Association, 2020
- Certificate of Teaching Excellence, University of California, Irvine, 2020
- Grad Slam Semi-Finalist, University of California, Irvine, 2019