Michael Lee
Dorman-Bloom Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lee is a Dorman-Bloom Associate Professor and HCI/CER researcher with 18 years of experience designing evidence-based technologies that teach novices programming and debugging. He created the NSF-funded Gidget game, a widely used free online puzzle that has taught hundreds of thousands of learners and is deployed in classrooms, camps, and diversity outreach events worldwide. His work blends computing education, cognitive science, and practical software development, and he has led community partnerships—such as Newark Kids Code with the Urban League of Essex County—to broaden participation in computing. With prior research and teaching roles at University of Washington, UC Berkeley, and international collaboration in Korea, he combines rigorous empirical research with hands-on curriculum design and deployment. Based in Chicago, he also served as PhD program director in Informatics, mentoring the next generation of HCI and computing education scholars.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Information Management and Systems, Masters, Information Management and Systems at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California San DiegoMasters, Information Science, Masters, Information Science at University of Washington
English, Korean, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
mobile-application9
clojure6
markdown6
concurrency6
cli6
react2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cs440lang/lectures
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
cs331ds/lectures
May 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:65 commits, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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