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Dr. Amon Millner is an Associate Professor of Computing and Innovation at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Engineering, where he directs the Extending Access to STEM Empowerment (EASE) Lab. He develops technologies, community programs, and resources to facilitate learners (ages 5 and up) incorporating computing into the way that they play, learn, prepare to fully participate in society, and uplift their communities. Dr Millner leads efforts within ³Ô¹ÏÍø's engineering for everyone strategic plan that explore ways for colleges, companies, and cities to collaborate with local community-serving organizations.

Dr Millner enjoys growing ideas into innovations that leave campus. As a Founding Advisor to Babson MBA alumna Bryanne Leeming's Unruly-Studios, Dr Millner is a co-inventor of Unruly Splats - bluetooth-connected programmable light-up floor tiles designed to turn school gyms, classrooms, libraries, and lunchroom floors into spaces where students create playground-style games in active and collaborative ways. The Splats graphical-blocks-based programming app draws influence from the Scratch language, which Dr Millner co-invented with the inaugural team assembled by his PhD Advisor Mitchel Resnick's MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten Group.

Dr. Millner works on government-funded projects that range from operationalizing early-age computational thinking frameworks to establishing coding practices in summer hip-hop dance camps. He has worked across continents and cultures as a Fulbright Specialist, has patents with 15-year-old inventors and Silicon-Valley stalwarts alike, has chaired the Board of The Clubhouse Network, and holds degrees from MIT (PhD Media Arts and Sciences), Georgia Tech (MS Human-Computer Interactions) and the University of Southern California (BS Computer Science).