Ike Choi
Program Director
Ike Choi, Ph.D., is a Professor and Assistant Dean of Education Systems Science at The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Before joining Emory, he was a Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology at the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. During his tenure at UGA, He led the SAVE (Situation-based Authentic Virtual Environments) Research Group (formerly known as Case-based e-Learning Research Group) for over 20 years. He was also a founding director of an interdisciplinary research lab, Research And Innovation in Learning (RAIL), which focuses on the intersection between learning and technology to create innovative educational solutions to address urgent educational issues at local, societal, and global levels. He promotes and practices “socially responsible and responsive educational research,” through which he tries to impact education practices at all levels. Choi’s most recent interdisciplinary research at Emory University focuses on integrating learning science, data science, and advanced technologies—virtual reality, simulation, machine learning, and biosensing technologies—into developing, implementing, and evaluating cost-effective innovations that enhance human learning, performance, and well-being.