Saadeddine Shehab is currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem-solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in design-based STEM classrooms. Over the past year, Dr. Shehab has been working on exploring synergies between lesson study and Human-Centered Design to design and implement a professional development where researchers and teachers design human-centered design problem-based mathematics research lessons.