He is currently Principal Investigator of two NSF-funded projects: Integrating STEM and Digital Literacies with Adolescents and Transformative Robotics Experience for Elementary Students. Dr. Shen’s scholarly work focuses on developing innovative, technology-enhanced learning environments, interdisciplinary and integrated STEM learning and assessment, and modeling-based teaching and learning. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Technology-enhanced Learning Sciences center at UC, Berkeley. Dr. Shen holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He will be responsible for delivering sessions related to multimodality, technology, and science fiction writing.