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Wan-Chen Lee is an assistant professor and a member of the Knowledge Organization Research Group at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her MLIS and PhD at the University of Washington Information School. Her research interests are knowledge organization, culture and resource description, classification theory, and metadata.

Fluent in English, Mandarin, and Japanese, Dr. Lee is particularly interested in the challenges and considerations of inclusive data work, which includes designing knowledge organization standards for different cultural contexts. She interrogates inclusivity in knowledge organization through document analysis and ethnography. Through scheme comparison, participatory observation, and interview, she addresses the ethical issues, interoperability concerns, and global-local tensions in cataloging and classification. She also studies the cultural stewardship of, and access to, multimedia resources. To support effective description, representation, and retrieval of multimedia resources, she collaborates with scholars across institutions on projects for video game metadata, anime genres, and mood descriptors for fictions.

Dr. Lee won a 2024 Carnegie-Whitney Grant for the project "Ethical AI and Librarianship: A Resource Guide."