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Frank Lee
Frank J. Lee
Professor, Digital Media
Director, Entrepreneurial Game Studio

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Office: URBN 220
Lab: URBN 3A20

Dr. Frank J. Lee is a Professor of Digital Media in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and his B.A. in Cognitive Science, with highest honors, from UC Berkeley in 1994.

In 2008, Lee co-founded Drexel's Game Design Program, recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the Top Game Design Programs in the U.S. He is also the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel, an educational incubator that mentors students in launching their own game companies.

Lee's projects have earned national and international awards and drawn extensive media coverage. His 2014 installation, Skyscraper Tetris, was featured in more than 1,500 articles and set a Guinness World Record as the Largest Architectural Video Game Display. He has been named one of Polygon's 50 Most Admirable Gaming People (2014), Hacker of the Year at the 3rd Annual Philadelphia Geek Awards (2013), and one of Philadelphia Magazine's Smartest People in Philadelphia (2012).



 

Education


2000 PhD, Cognitive Psychology. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
1994 BA, Cognitive Science (Highest Honors). U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.