Xiaodong Lin, PhD

Dr. Xiaodong Lin is a professor of Cognitive Science in Education and the Founding Director of Education for Persistence and Innovation Center (EPIC, http://epic.tc.columbia.edu/), at Teachers College, Columbia University.   She studies how to motivate students to succeed despite of running into obstacles in their school work and personal life.   A theme that runs throughout her research is how learning about people’s processes of struggling with failures can improve students’ future learning and confidence.