Core Faculty

The institute is founded on faculty engagement across disciplines. Starting with a core group, we bring together faculty and students in key fields such as learning and human development, health, human-computer interaction, psychology, design and engineering to work with and in the community, design the learning environments of the future and transform the university’s role as a knowledge partner.

Members of the institute build on robust community partnerships, access internal initiatives, collaborate with talented graduate students and benefit from enhanced infrastructural resources. Partnering with the institute offers mutual growth, fostering innovation and impactful research in a collaborative environment.

Sam Abramovich

Associate Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction and Department of Information Science

Rachel Bonnette

Assistant Professor

Department of Engineering Education

Federica Bulgarelli

Assistant Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction and Department of Psychology

Yunjeong Chang

Assistant Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Adrienne Decker

Associate Professor

Department of Engineering Education

Samuel Dodson

Assistant Professor

Department of Information Science

Virginia Flood

Associate Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Christopher Hoadley

Director, Institute for Learning Sciences; Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction and Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Sameer Honwad

Assistant Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Chris Proctor

Assistant Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Corey Schimpf

Assistant Professor

Department of Engineering Education

Alexa Schindel

Associate Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Saguna Shankar

Assistant Professor

Department of Information Science

Naomi Thompson

Assistant Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Noemi Waight

Associate Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

X. Christine Wang

Director, Fisher-Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center; Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Junsong Yuan

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering