Yuliya Yoncheva, PhD

advancing education & promoting learner agency and decision-making skills for the AI era

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Bio Resources

Research Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Institute for Innovations in Medical Education · Center for Empathy in Medicine

My career is centered on one problem: how to tell whether someone’s thinking and skill have genuinely changed. The gamut of instruments spans neuroimaging, randomized trials, and AI systems that assess performance and deliver feedback.

Principal Investigator

Communication Compass: AI-Enhanced Feedback System, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, 1 of 3 nationally selected (2025-2027)
The Empathy Project Stories Research, 12-month follow-up (2024-now) Presenting at Gold Humanism Summit
AI in Workforce Education, NYU PrMEIR (2024-2025)

Community

Speaker Teaching Decision Literacy Through Discovery-Based Generative AI Simulation, (Re)Designing Pedagogy for the GenAI Era (2026)
Moderator 🎥 Research @ Teaching & Learning with AI symposium (2025)
Co-founder AI in Education, POD Network Special Interest Group (2023)
Awardee Learning Tool Grant, Clearer Thinking (2021)

contact

Substack ❦ PubMed ❦ LinkedIn