Yiqiu Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, learning analytics, and the learning sciences, with a particular focus on multimodal learning processes and human–AI collaboration.

Her work explores how multimodal large language models and other AI technologies can be used to understand educational video, classroom interaction, non-verbal behavior, and collaborative learning. She is particularly interested in developing AI-supported approaches that make the analysis of complex learning processes more scalable and informative while keeping human judgment and oversight central. Her broader interests include multimodal learning analytics, educational data mining, AI-supported assessment, and collaborative learning.