I am a research associate (postdoc) in the Educational Research and Development Group at the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Our new group is creating games and other interactive media that teach about cutting-edge science.

My background is in the learning sciences, computer science, and cognitive science. I draw on those disciplines to create new tools that help users learn, create, and share, and study the social and organizational dynamics of their use.

I recently received my PhD from Northwestern University in Learning Sciences. While at Northwestern, I was a member of the Information Infrastructure Systems research group (at the University of Chicago) and the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-based Modeling. I studied computer science and cognitive science at UC San Diego, where I was a member of the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
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