Victor R. Lee

Role: Associate Professor, Faculty Lead for AI & Education Initiative Organization: Stanford Graduate School of Education Email: vrlee@stanford.edu Assistant: Sylvia Cardenas Office: Raikes 235 Website: https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/vrlee Relationship Depth: Faculty Partner

Professional Background

• Associate Professor at Stanford GSE
• Faculty Lead for Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s initiative on AI and Education
• Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
• Past-president and elected fellow of the International Society of the Learning Sciences
• PhD from Northwestern University (Learning Sciences), undergrad at UC San Diego (Cognitive Science, HCI, Math)
• NSF CAREER award recipient, Jan Hawkins Award winner

Research Focus

• Data literacy and K-12 data science education
• AI literacy for students and teachers
• Elementary computer science education
• Maker education and science cognition
• Educational design research through research-practice partnerships

Key Publications

• “Cheating: The AI elephant in the classroom” (2025) - with Denise Pope
• “Teacher reactions, worries, and PD needs related to generative AI” (2025)
• “Cheating in the age of generative AI” (2024)
• Book: “Advancing Data Science Education in K-12” (2025)

Working Relationship with Reuben

• Soft pitched Josh on Build-a-Bot expansion (May 2025)
• Sees Build-a-Bot as “distinctive AI literacy experience” with “super widget quality”
• Interested in “Teachable Machines” (Dan Schwartz style) approach
• Wants to bring on post-doc for building; sees Reuben in architect/design role
• “Build-a-Bot is a spark” on how to do AI literacy differently

Working Style

• “He has to come to us on this one” - let him drive partnership interest
• Likes to be part of presentations and brought in
• Interested in “skunk works” style collaboration

Key Notes

• Use his framework for AI literacy
• Keep him informed when others present Build-a-Bot without SAL team
• Connected to Dan Schwartz’s work on “Teachable Machines”

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Last updated: Jan 2026