Research Interest: AI & Education, Future & Uncertainties, Affect Theory (Educational Desires), Autonomous Knowledge Production

Liurong is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she also completed her undergraduate studies in Sociology with a minor in Translation. She is presently a full-time Teaching Assistant at the department. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a research assistant on projects related to migrant parenting (National Institute of Education), intergenerational value transmission, and Singapore–Africa knowledge mobility and smart city modelling at the NUS Department of Geography, as well as research on migrant families at the Asia Research Institute (NUS). 

Situated in the tensions of uncertainties in the Age of AI, her current research examines how university students in Singapore negotiate the meaning and value of higher education through their engagement with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). It explores how GenAI unsettles established promises of credentials, employability, and social mobility, while creating new possibilities—and constraints—for students to shape their own educational futures as active agents of education. She seeks to unpack how education functions simultaneously as a disciplinary public institution, a booming monetized market, and a private horizon of aspiration—probing how the promise of education comes to animate hope/fear, desire, and imagined social futures.