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I’m Xinman ᨒ𖠰꙳

Yoyo Liu

I spend my days at the edges — where data meets intuition, research meets product, and technology meets the deeply human act of teaching and learning.

I graduated from Stanford in Education Data Science. Drawing on human-computer interaction, curriculum and instruction, learning sciences, policy and ethics, data, and applied AI, I design systems that center human creativity and care alongside technical capability. I'm now at the HKUST Center for Education Innovation, building infra that enables and spreads innovative practices in education.

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Hi, I’m Yoyo.

My work spans the full arc of AI x education, vertically from K–12 to higher ed to the workplace, and horizontally from product to data to policy and community engagement.

Lately, this has meant deploying an end-to-end teacher–AI collaborative feedback platform, shaping curriculum design for AI literacy, and building infra for educational practices.

On the side, I facilitate and engage in conversations on responsible AI in education at Minds Studio ↗ and Good Future Foundation ↗.

I seek an intentional breadth that leads toward depth. Multiple lenses that allow me to engage in productive friction.

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  • CurrentlyHKUST Center for Education Innovation
  • Emailxinman@ust.hk
  • WritingSynaptic Societies ↗
  • Why YoyoMy parents are big Yo-Yo Ma fans... and yes, I play the cello too.
  • JoysMaking breakfast. Nom.
  • Recently asking1. How do we build infra that enables the spread of innovative practices in education?
    2. What should success metrics be when AI makes a strong product no longer indicative of a strong learning process?
    3. Future-proofing, or future-shaping?
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Research & Design
User Interviews Usability Testing A/B Testing Focus Groups Diary Studies Think-Aloud Affinity Mapping PAR Surveys Figma
Data Science & AI
Python R SQL Machine Learning NLP LLM Workflows RAG Systems Prompt Evals Statistical Modeling JavaScript
Platforms & Tools
Notion Figma Firebase Dify Webflow UserTesting Cursor Unity React

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Jul
2026
Conference
Presented our papers A Bigger Catch: Fine-Grained Curriculum Standards Alignment on the MathFish Benchmark and ClaimCLAIRE: A Trust-Aware Multi-Component Fact-Checking Agent for Open-World Claims at the ACL BEA and TrustNLP workshops.
Jun
2026
Conference
Attended the Festival of Learning in Korea! Presented our papers Measuring Math or Mouse Skills? Behavioral Dimensions and Multiple Pathways to Test-Taking Efficiency in Computer-Based Testing and CantoTalk: Probing Teacher Expertise From Fine-Tuned Talk Move Representations accepted at Educational Data Mining (EDM).
May
2026
Publication
Published book chapter Coded crisis and situated algorithms: a decolonial intersectional feminist perspective on the ethics of AI in education in the Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education.
Mar
2026
Community
Just wrapped up our second season of Communities of Practice on AI ↗!
Nov
2025
Bootcamp
We just wrapped up our 2nd cohort of the Learnest Responsible AI Bootcamp for EdTech Practitioners ↗ !
Oct
2025
Conference
Our paper, Identifying Critical Prompt Elements for Zero-Shot Detection of Notice and Wonder Routines, is accepted for presentation at the AI in Education Summit, Khan Lab School, Mountain View, CA.
Oct
2025
Launch
Our Goodnotes research report, The AI Shift in Schools: Risks, Realities, and Whats Coming Next, was launched at the UK Parliament! ↗
Sep
2025
Summit
Had a truly humbling and fun experience coming together with many curious-minded people at the week-long 2025 Innovative School Summit ↗ in Incheon, Seoul, and Jeju, hosted by the Next Challenge Foundation.
Let’s connect!

Open to collaborations, conversations & work.

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© 2026 Xinman "Yoyo" Liu
crafted between sips of coffee and a questionable amount of avocado toast