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Supervisors

Our listed Supervisors draw on close links to games industry/related academia, and are conducting interdisciplinary research in areas such as:

  • Understanding player experience, games user research, and game analytics

  • Game audio and music

  • Using games and gamification to support wellbeing, learning, or social change

  • Using esports and other game data to study human behaviour and psychology

  • Interaction, user experience and learning design for games

  • Using machine learning (ML) and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to create interesting, fun, believable game agents

  • Augmented creativity tools that support game designers and developers, e.g. procedural content generation, AI-assisted game design and testing

  • Using ideas from game AI to improve real-world decision making beyond games

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Prof. Richard Bartle

- iGGi Management -

Prof. Richard Bartle

Supervisor

University of Essex

Design & Development, Game AI, Player Research

Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns

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Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Audio, Player Research

Dr Guifen Chen

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Dr Guifen Chen

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Creative Computing, Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Prof. Simon Colton

- iGGi Management -

Prof. Simon Colton

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Game Audio, Creative Computing, Accessibility, Player Research

Dr Joe Cutting

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Dr Joe Cutting

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

University of York

Player Research, Applied Games, Design & Development

Prof. Anders Drachen

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Prof. Anders Drachen

Supervisor

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Player Research, Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

Dr Catherine Flick

- iGGi Management -

Dr Catherine Flick

Supervisor

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Accessibility, Applied Games, Player Research

Dr Lina Gega

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Dr Lina Gega

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Player Research

Dr Christian Guckelsberger

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Dr Christian Guckelsberger

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI

Dr Anne Hsu

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Dr Anne Hsu

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research, Esports

Dr Lorenzo Jamone

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Dr Lorenzo Jamone

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Applied Games, Creative Computing

Dr Ben Kirman

- iGGi Management -

Dr Ben Kirman

Supervisor

University of York

Player Research, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Applied Games, Esports

Prof. Simon Lucas

- iGGi Management -

Prof. Simon Lucas

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI

Dr Fiona McNab

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Dr Fiona McNab

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games

Dr Diego Pérez-Liébana

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Dr Diego Pérez-Liébana

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Game Data

Dr Paulo Rauber

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Dr Paulo Rauber

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI

Prof. Mark Sandler

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Prof. Mark Sandler

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game Audio

Dr Laurissa Tokarchuk

- iGGi Management -

Dr Laurissa Tokarchuk

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Immersive Technology, Creative Computing, Player Research, Applied Games, Game AI

Dr James Walker

- iGGi Management -

Dr James Walker

Supervisor

University of York

Game AI, Game Data, Creative Computing, Esports

Dr Poonam Yadav

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Dr Poonam Yadav

Supervisor

University of York

Design & Development, Game Data, Esports

Dr Jen Beeston

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Dr Jen Beeston

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

University of York

Accessibility

Prof. Paul Cairns

- iGGi Management -

Prof. Paul Cairns

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Player Research, Accessibility, Game Data

Dr Tom Cole

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Dr Tom Cole

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

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Game AI, Design & Development

Dr Mike Cook

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Dr Mike Cook

Supervisor

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Game AI, Design & Development, Creative Computing

Dr Alena Denisova

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Dr Alena Denisova

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Player Research, Design & Development

Dr Abi Evans

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Dr Abi Evans

Supervisor

University of York

Design & Development, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Dan Franks

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Dr Dan Franks

Supervisor

University of York

Game AI, Game Data

Dr Jeremy Gow

- iGGi Management -

Dr Jeremy Gow

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Game Data

Dr Miles Hansard

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Dr Miles Hansard

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Immersive Technology, Design & Development, Game Data

Dr Patrik Huber

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Dr Patrik Huber

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Game Data, Immersive Technology, Player Research, Esports

Dr Yul HR Kang

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Dr Yul HR Kang

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Player Research, Creative Computing, Immersive Technology

Prof. William Latham

- iGGi Management -

Prof. William Latham

Supervisor

Goldsmiths

Creative Computing, Immersive Technology

Dr Debbie Maxwell

- iGGi Management -

Dr Debbie Maxwell

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Player Research, Design & Development

Prof. Damian Murphy

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Prof. Damian Murphy

Supervisor

University of York

Creative Computing, Game Audio, Immersive Technology

Prof. Massimo Poesio

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Prof. Massimo Poesio

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Applied Games, Game AI

Dr Josh Reiss

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Dr Josh Reiss

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Creative Computing, Game AI, Game Audio

Prof. Greg Slabaugh

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Prof. Greg Slabaugh

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Applied Games, Creative Computing, Immersive Technology

Prof. Marian Ursu

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Prof. Marian Ursu

Supervisor

Goldsmiths

Player Research, Creative Computing

Dr Sarah West

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Dr Sarah West

Supervisor

University of York

Player Research, Accessibility, Design & Development

Dr David Zendle

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Dr David Zendle

Supervisor

University of York

Game Data, Player Research

Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks

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Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks

Supervisor

University of York

Game Audio, Player Research, Design & Development, Applied Games, Accessibility

Dr Ignacio Castro

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Dr Ignacio Castro

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Applied Games, Player Research, Game Data

Dr Tom Collins

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Dr Tom Collins

Supervisor

University of York

Game AI, Game Audio, Game Data, Player Research, Esports

Prof. Peter Cowling

- iGGi Management -

Prof. Peter Cowling

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Applied Games, Design & Development

Prof. Sebastian Deterding

- iGGi Management -

Prof. Sebastian Deterding

Supervisor

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Applied Games, Creative Computing, Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov

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Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Design & Development, Game AI, Immersive Technology, Player Research

Dr Raluca Gaina

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Dr Raluca Gaina

iGGi Alum + Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI

Dr Claudio Guarnera

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Dr Claudio Guarnera

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Creative Computing

Dr Jon Hook

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Dr Jon Hook

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Player Research, Esports

Dr Jo Iacovides

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Dr Jo Iacovides

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Design & Development, Player Research

Dr Gavin Kearney

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Dr Gavin Kearney

Supervisor

University of York

Accessibility, Applied Games, Game AI, Game Audio

Dr Mariana Lopez

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Dr Mariana Lopez

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Game Audio

Dr Cade McCall

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Dr Cade McCall

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Game Data, Player Research

Prof. Nick Pears

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Prof. Nick Pears

Supervisor

University of York

Game AI, Creative Computing

Prof. Matthew Purver

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Prof. Matthew Purver

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Creative Computing, Game AI

Dr Søren Riis

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Dr Søren Riis

Supervisor

Queen Mary University of London

Game AI, Game Data, Creative Computing

Dr William Smith

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Dr William Smith

Supervisor

University of York

Creative Computing, Design & Development, Game AI, Player Research

Prof. Alex Wade

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Prof. Alex Wade

Supervisor

University of York

Player Research, Applied Games, Creative Computing, Game Data, Esports

Dr Andrew James Wood

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Dr Andrew James Wood

Supervisor

University of York

Applied Games, Design & Development, Game Data

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