I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science with a joint appointment at Science, Math, and Technology Education (SMATE), Western Washington University.

I conducted interdisciplinary research at the intersections of Computer Science, learning sciences, and educational technologies. The key idea behind my work is to advance educational design and deepen our understanding of learning, with a special focus on Computer Science education.

News

• (2026, Mar) Students in my SCED 205 had an succesful cybersecurity outreach at a local middle school. Read the story here.
• (2026, Feb) One of our work has been accepted by the International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) at the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting. Congratulations to the student co-authors, Jiyoung Cheong and Jacqueline Tan.
• (2026, Feb) Two of our work has been accepted by ACM SIGCSE as posters and are available online now: Lab exam and peer code review.
• (2026, Jan) One of our work has been accepted by the 16th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK26).
• (2026) Two of our work has been accepted by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual meeting. Congratulations to the students co-authors, Jiyoung Cheong and Jacqueline Tan.
• Publication Alert! Our work Origami-based Collaborative Spatial Problem-Solving: Multimodal Observational Study has been accepted by Thinking Skills and Creativity (IF: 4.5, CiteScore: 7.8) and is available online now.