Amanda Brown
GRIP Lab Co-Director
Amanda is a research scientist at the University of Michigan that studies teachers’ instructional practices and innovative approaches for intervening in those practices through pd. She has a PhD in Mathematics Education and MA in Mathematics.
Jainisha Chavda
Research Associate
Jainisha holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Michigan State University. She is interested in studying education systems of the global south and has a diverse research portfolio including topics such as datafication and education, gender and youth issues, and school choice. She is supporting various project, data, and research management activities at the GRIP Lab.
Anthony Davis
Research Technician Intermediate
Anthony is completing his M.A. in Educational Studies at the Marsal School of Education. His research interests include systems and practices that empower equity in education.
Sophia Do
Research Assistant
Sophia is a freshman at the University of Michigan in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts majoring in Psychology. She primarily works in supporting research data collection and management.
Pat Herbst
GRIP Lab Director
Pat is a professor of Education and Mathematics at Michigan. He studies the knowledge and rationality involved in teaching mathematics and the use of digital technologies to represent and communicate professional knowledge.
Soobin Jeon
Research Assistant
Soobin is a Ph.D. student in mathematics education at the University of Michigan. She is interested in how we can support teachers to engage students in meaningful math learning and how we can use technology and innovation in the process.
Srikanth Lavu
Application Developer
Srikanth has an MS in Computer Science. His work mainly involves designing and developing Software Applications for the GRIP team which are used for research studies.
Adia Lee
Research Assisstant
Adia is a junior at the University of Michigan in the School of Information on the Information Analysis path. She is currently supporting the work of building guides and tutorials for the software (Anotemos and LessonDepict) and assisting with the data management.
Christine Qiu
Research Assistant
Christine is a freshman at the University of Michigan on the pre-med track. She is in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and interested in mathematics and its education.
Yiğit Savuran
Research Associate
Yiğit holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction. His research interests include corpus linguistics and discourse analysis studies as well as educational assessment and evaluation.
Rüya Savuran
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rüya holds a Ph.D. degree from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Türkiye. She has experience as a mathematics teacher research assistant and instructor at different universities. She is interested in exploring the foundations and development of mathematics teacher knowledge through teaching experiments designed for preservice mathematics teachers.
Khoi Vu
Research Assistant
Khoi is a freshman at the University of Michigan in the College of Engineering. He is majoring in computer engineering and is interested in web development for the GRIP Lab.
Past GRIP Team Members
Kayin Aaron · Wendy Rose Aaron · Carlos Acevedo · Marwa Aidibi · Enes Akbuga · Darrell Allen · Kuhoo Bairwal · Megha Bairwal · Emanuele Bardelli · Robert Beckemeyer · Inese Berzina-Pitcher · Stephen Bizer · Heather Bleecker· Nicolas Boileau · Eszter Boldog · Noah Boudrie · Christopher Breznau · Scott Bridges · Chandler Brown · Tottionna Bushell · Jeong Lim Chae · Chia-Ling Chen · Vu Minh Chieu · Hannah Connell · Rachel Cortez · Stephanie Delgado · Amirali Denai · Justin Dimmel · Maranda Discenna · Ander Erickson · Erin Fedeson · Felice Gonzales · Gloriana Gonzáles · Michael Green · Umut Gursel · Susie Hagan · Kristi Hanby · Bruno Herbst · Carolyn Hetrick · Hui-Yu (Angela) Hsu · Natalyn Kapner · Inah Ko · Karl W. Kosko · Yungchi (Jack) Lin · Jorge Luna · Claudine Margolis · Manu Mehrotra · Takeshi Miyakawa · Joel Maidens · Talli Nachlieli · Rashmi Nair · Andre Quimper · Annick Rougee · Gil Schwarts · Eran Segal · Mollee Shultz · Travis Skindzier · Rachel Snider · Andrew Spiteri · Mindy Steffen · Irma Stevens · Natalie Suh · Micah Swartz · Michael Ion · Michael Weiss · Jack Zaloga · Alan Zhang · Jinzhi (Bella) Zhou