Charlotte P. Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Sociology from San Jose State University, a Ph.D in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and did postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine. Her professional experience is in system administration, database administration, interaction design, and project management. Dr. Lee’s research is in the fields of Social Informatics, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Design Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. Her work focuses on empirically describing and theorizing the informational practices, artifacts, and collaborative structures of communities of practice working towards a shared goal: collaborative design. Her paper entitled the “Human Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure” was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the ACM's Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.  Dr. Lee is the principle investigator of an NSF-funded project studying collaboration in the development of cyberinfrastructure using the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) as a case study and an NSF-funded project studying how expertise is leveraged in the development of cyberinfrastructure at two major supercomputing centers.

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