Core Faculty

The Institute for Learning Sciences unites faculty and students across fields like education, health, technology, psychology, design, and engineering. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration, we partner with internal initiatives, graduate students, and community organizations to improve how people learn and share knowledge.

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

Briana Devlin

Associate Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Samuel Dodson

Assistant Professor

Department of Information Science

Lauren Fischer

Assistant Professor

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Virginia Flood

Associate Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Christopher Hoadley

Director, Institute for Learning Sciences; Professor

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

Sameer Honwad

Assistant Professor

Department of Learning and Instruction

Anyango Kamina

Assistant Dean for Student Development and Academic Enhancement

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Melissa McCartney

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Tim Monreal

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

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