Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Computational Media

Title Assistant Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

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Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
257

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

David T. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz. He received his PhD from Stanford University, where he was a part of the Society and Algorithms Lab and Crowdsourced Democracy Team, and his BS from the California Institute of Technology. His research integrates design, algorithms, and incentives to support experiential learning at scale and to support governments and nonprofits in organizing community mmebers towards addressing complex, societal issues. His work has received a paper award at AAAI HCOMP and ACM CHI, been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and deployed with the Finland Ministry of the Environment. He is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, an Accel Innovation Scholar, a two-time recipient of a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and a recipient of the Baskin School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award.

Research Interests

Social computing; human-computer interaction; future of education and work; participatory democracy; human-AI collaboration.

Selected Publications

• D. T. Lee, E. S. Hamedian, G. Wolff, and A. Liu, "Causeway: Scaling Situated Learning via Micro-Role Hierarchies", CHI 2019.
• A. Goel and D. T. Lee, "Towards Large-Scale Deliberative Decision-Making: Small Groups and the Importance of Triads", EC 2016.
• D. T. Lee, A. Goel, T. Aitamurto, and H. Landemore, "Crowdsourcing for Participatory Democracies: Efficient Elicitation of Social Choice Functions", HCOMP 2014.
• P. Dandekar, A. Goel, and D. T. Lee, "Biased Assimilation, Homophily, and the Dynamics of Polarization", PNAS 2013.