Lee received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 2000 from Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.A. in Cognitive Science in 1994 from UC Berkeley.Lee co-founded Drexel’s Game Design Program in 2008, currently ranked as one of the Top 5 Best Game Design Programs in U.S. He is the founding director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University, an initiative to teach students entrepreneurship by helping them to create their own game companies. His most recent project, Skyscraper Tetris (2014), was mentioned in over 1500 news stories worldwide with an estimated 2.2 billion media impressions. In 2014, he was selected as one of the “50 Most Admirable People in Gaming” by Polygon.