Santa Fe Institute

Bio

Irene Lee is the Director of the Learning Lab at Santa Fe Institute. She is the Principal Investigator of GUTS y Girls (NSF-ITEST #10-31421), New Mexico Computer Science for All (NSF-CE21, #1240992), and Program Director of Project GUTS: Growing Up Thinking Scientifically (NSF-AYS #639637). She is also the subaward PI on various projects including NIH-MIDAS MRSA in the Community education supplement (University of Chicago/Argonne), GUTC: Growing Up Thinking Computationally (NM EPSCoR), Computational Thinking STEM Professionals Workshop (EDC), and CAREER: Social Closeness (University of Arizona).

Irene received a bachelor’s degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Master’s degree in Technology in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Recently she served as a member of the ACM-CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards writing team. Previously, she designed and developed educational and video games for Electronic Arts and Theatrix Interactive and worked in informal education as a science specialist. Irene is the past president of the Supercomputing Challenge and the Swarm Development Group.