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Faculty Director

Ph.D. Students

Alexander Card - programming languages and tool support for designing and developing games.

Sasha Azad - generative storytelling for real-world environments; social influence simulation for virtual populations.

Chinmaya Dabral - narrative generation based on privacy policies and regulations.

Abhijeet Krishnan - procedural content generation using machine learning techniques.

Jennifer Wellnitz - artificial intelligence for modeling personality in interactive virtual characters.

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Masters Students

Thomas Bacher - research on human-computer interaction for authoring interactive narratives with Villanelle.

Aaron Casey - research on models of narrative persuasion

Undergraduate Students

Aaron Williams - research on action model learning and procedural content generation for puzzle games

Jake Matteson - understanding the role of feedback in fighting games, and augmenting said feedback with playtrace analytics


POEM Alumni

Ph.D. Students

  • Dr. Markus Eger - Ph.D., 2018. Now an Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona. Research on Ostari - epistemic models of agent-based systems with applications to games and narrative.

Masters Students

  • Owais Iqbal - M.S. 2019. Currently a Software Engineer at Facebook. Research on Villanelle - tool support for character authoring in interactive fiction.

  • Samuel Henderson - M.S. 2020. Research on visualizing formal models of game mechanics.

Undergraduate Students

  • Pascal Le - integrating personality models into behavior trees

  • Rook Liu - development of a playable experience using the Villanelle character authoring tool

  • Jacqueline Hong - the Ceptre editor website, examples and videos

  • Claire Christopher - development of a playable experience using the Villanelle character authoring tool

  • Tony Mosolf - research on usable tools for character authoring in interactive fiction

  • Hannah Morrison - formal models of social interaction and conversation.

  • Ryan S. Alexander - formal models of open world games.

  • Sriya Madapusi Vasudevan - AI for knowledge acquisition in uncertain environments, applied to automated text adventuring.

  • Carolyn Thompson - computational comics theory

  • Emma McCamey - interactive narrative authoring with Villanelle

  • Johanna Timmer - interactive narrative authoring with Villanelle