Yee earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Haverford College (with a concentration in computer science) and received his Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University in 2007.
The Daedalus Project, his research into the psychology and sociology of MMORPGs, has collected survey data from over 40,000 game players.
Yee's research has appeared in The New York Times,[2] The Wall Street Journal,[3] BusinessWeek,[4] and CNN International,[5] among other media outlets.
Snippets of an interview with Yee on the topic of online gaming can be seen in the documentary Second Skin, which premiered at the 2008 SXSW Arts festival.
I think I came to realize that continuing the project would require more time than I could devote to it..."[6] In 2015, Yee co-founded Quantic Foundry with Nicolas Ducheneaut.