Mark Warschauer
Principal Investigator
Distinguished Professor of Education, UC Irvine
Former K–12 bilingual teacher and one of the nation’s leading experts in AI in education. Director of the Digital Learning Lab.
THE TEAM
Research team behind the platform.
My Story Detective brings together expertise in AI, early reading development, multilingual learning, and classroom practice.
MY STORY DETECTIVE
Meet the team.
Young-Suk Kim
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor of Education, UC Irvine
One of the top U.S. researchers in early reading development. Her work directly informs the platform’s literacy curriculum.
Tamara Tate
Co-Principal Investigator
Project Scientist, UC Irvine
Associate Director of the Digital Learning Lab whose research focuses on technology-supported learning, school-based digital literacy interventions, and digital writing.
Ying Xu
Project Consultant
Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University
A leading expert on the use of AI to promote young children’s learning and a key advisor on the platform’s dialogic reading and decoding supports.
Viri Murillo
Graduate Student Researcher
PhD Student in Education, UC Irvine
Former elementary dual-immersion teacher with deep expertise in language and literacy development for multilingual learners.
Julian Levine
Graduate Student Researcher
PhD Candidate in Education, UC Irvine
A language and literacy researcher investigating how AI-powered conversational agents and interactive media can support children’s learning and vocabulary development.