My research group is working on serious games: games for the purpose of education. Virtual reality, eye-tracking technology, as well as supervised machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques are deployed for this purpose.

Research Interests

• Computer Games, Serious Games, Educational Games, Virtual Reality
• Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
• Social Media

Office hours

• Tuesdays 1:45-2:45pm and Thursdays 6-7pm (Mountain Time)

Prospective Students

• If you have the same interests as my research group, contact me using this form.

My Podcast

• Video Games, AI, and Why You Should Study Both

News

Research
• National Science Foundation funds 2-year study of Behrend engineering teams

Teaching
• Behrend professors use custom Zoom backgrounds to boost student engagement

Students
• Game on: Students Make Connections at Conference
• Penn State Behrend gamers go the distance for good cause

Links

• Department of Computer Science Profile
• Game Production One-Week Intensive Course
• Researchers Active in Technical Games Research
• Academic Lineage: The Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Connect: LinkedIn

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computing Science, University of Alberta.
• Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computing Science, University of Alberta.
• Honours Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science - AI Specialization, University of Toronto.