Clement Chau, Ph.D. Candidate
Vice President, Principal Evaluator
Clement Chau is the cofounder and vice president of Ponte & Chau Consulting, Inc. Clement serves as the lead program evaluator and researcher, offering his expertise to a range of organizations and services such as NAEYC accreditation, program development and evaluation, and curriculum design and assessment. Currently, Clement is also a Learning Designer at Leapfrog Enterprises where he develops curriculum, evaluates designs, and ideates educational innovations and strategies for toys, mobile technologies, and interactive books.
Before Ponte & Chau, Clement was a lead researcher at the Developmental Technologies Research group at Tufts University, where he worked under Prof. Marina Bers and was a lead designer and researcher in the development of Zora, a 3D virtual environment that has successfully delivered and engaged children in medical education curriculum in hospitals and around issues of citizenship. Clement was a researcher at the MIT Comparative Media Studies Department where he worked under Prof. Henry Jenkins on the MacArthur Foundation funded New Media Literacies project. Besides working and writing about technology and children, Clement is also published in areas including youth civic engagement, positive youth development, and bi-cultural identity. Clement is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University working on his dissertation research on adolescent development and YouTube.