Industry Testimonials

"Working with PhD students means inviting the full breadth of their knowledge and dedication to your project, enriching it in ways that will surprise everyone involved."

"We at Team LAIKA cannot recommend working with IGGI PhD students highly enough! Our collaboration with our IGGI PhD Madeleine Frister was invaluable for our success, and we count
ourselves highly lucky to have been given the opportunity to work with her. If you are considering working with an IGGI PhD for a placement - don’t think twice! Jump on it! It’s been truly excellent for us."

"Gorm says that his work at Playdead has seen him obtain a detailed knowledge of the inner workings of the game company. He echoes that it has been useful for his PhD, he has gained a detailed knowledge of the asset and production pipeline at a games company.
Gorm has an academic, structured and methodological approach to his work that has been important when debugging and finding solutions to challenges. This approach has been essential to his work on LIMBO."

"Adam learned about our Evocraft framework, which is an API for the game Minecraft, developed by us, with the purpose of facilitating game AI and artificial life research.
Adam implemented the evolutionary training of neural turing machines and neural cellular automata to generate artifacts in Minecraft, so we could learn how well these techniques work in our framework."

"Working with PhD students has been a great way for us to get up to date on state-of-the-art methods, every company should hire one.
I’d certainly encourage any organisation to consider bringing a PhD student into early conceptual projects; Aside from bringing great enthusiasm, energy and knowledge Ollie genuinely helped challenge and direct core aspects of the original product design and feature set.
Personally, it's been a pleasure working alongside Ollie during his tenure with us; a credit to your university."

"Working with PhD students provides an invaluable opportunity for start-up companies to perform R&D, which otherwise would not be possible given the size and timescales of tech start-ups."

"Working with Dimitris has been an enriching experience for our organization. His depth of knowledge, dedication, and innovative approach have significantly contributed to our technological advancements and market edge."

"Collaborating with PhD students it’s a great opportunity for mutual skills development, creative exchange, and long-term collaborative opportunities."

"Collaborating with Joe on his games accessibility research projects has delivered an invaluable insight into the accessibility of our titles and provided inspiration to take our work in this field further."

"We at Team LAIKA continue to give the highest recommendation for working with IGGI PhD students! Our collaboration with IGGI PhD Amy Smith was invaluable for our success, and we count ourselves very lucky to have been given the opportunity to work with her. If you are a company out there considering working with an IGGI PhD for a placement - take it from us, it’s 100% worth it and you will be delighted with the results.”