Chunyan Yang, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of School Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Maryland. Grounded in a socio-ecological framework, her research investigates how risks and adversities are experienced across individual and group levels, how protective factors in schools and communities can buffer these risks, and how socio-cultural and demographic contexts shape resilience processes. More specifically, she examines how youth and educators engage with school-wide practices and district- and state-level policies, such as social-emotional learning, disciplinary approaches, and universal preschool policies, to build resilience in the face of challenges including bullying, educator-targeted violence, and, more recently, marginalization in STEM fields. As a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow, Dr. Yang is studying how educators use AI-enabled educational technologies to implement and scale social and emotional learning (SEL) programs while integrating SEL with academic instruction to strengthen students’ holistic development. She is also collaborating with local Montgomery County middle and high schools, nonprofit organizations, and interdisciplinary researchers to design and pilot Co-Learn Code and Mind, a school-based initiative that integrates robotics learning, transformative SEL, and co-design practices to foster collaboration, youth leadership, ethical innovation in human-AI interactions, with a particular focus on child–robot learning contexts.