Founder & Researcher

Evelyn Kim

Senior at Singapore American School (Class of ’27). Author of “Artificial Intelligence in Emotional Intelligence Training for Autism” — Curieux Academic Journal, July 2025; also on the UNESCO Learning Planet Institute Youth Fellow platform (PDF) — the paper that started this work.

Phase 1 lead: study design, taxonomy, clip curation, participant outreach, data analysis.

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Mission

“Technology has often made it harder for people to connect. I believe it can also do the opposite — help human relationships feel a little smoother, a little richer. This is my small attempt to look for that path in the corner I know best: data and information. It's already turning into a long one.”

The full story of how the project took its current shape — paper findings, the pivot, what I learned along the way — is on the research page. First-person notes on individual milestones are on the project diary.

With thanks to

Acknowledgments

• Curieux Academic Journal — for publishing the originating paper and providing a venue for high-school student research.
• UNESCO Learning Planet Institute Youth Fellow platform — for hosting the paper and connecting it to a global youth-research community.
• Singapore American School — for the academic environment that made the originating paper possible, and for recruitment support.
• Every participant — every reading you contribute is the substance of this work.
• Sean Kim (Evelyn's parent) — for site planning and AI-assisted development support.

We're growing

Roles open to the right people

MindLens Lab is small on purpose. Phase 1 is data collection — once we're ready for Phase 2 (validated study materials), we want to partner with people who deepen the research, not extend the scaffolding. Roles we're thinking about:

• Faculty advisor — cognitive science, developmental psychology, autism research, or emotion recognition. To shape methodology beyond Phase 1.
• Educator collaborator — someone working with neurodiverse learners who can co-design the eventual study materials and ground them in classroom reality.
• Researcher (read-only) — for statistical or qualitative analysis of the dataset, with the option to co-author findings.

Interested? Email contact@mindlenslab.org with a short note about how you'd engage.