Yusuf Pisan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is the director of the Games Studio and member of the Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD) research strength. His research interests include enabling technologies for computer games and the design of virtual environments that support collaborative work.

Yusuf has served as a general conference chair and program chair for a number of international conferences and was appointed to head the International Game Developer’s Association’s (IGDA) taskforce to design a model curriculum for game studies. He is a founding member of the Sydney Chapter of ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), a key group that brings together academics and practitioners.

Over the past several years, Yusuf has become a prominent voice in both print and broadcast media on the subject of computer games. In 2004, he founded the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, an annual event that showcases international technology and research in games. As a pioneer in the field of games studies in Australia, Yusuf introduced the first advanced subjects on computer games in Australia, designed an undergraduate degree in games development (Bsc in Games Development), and developed the first cross-faculty course at UTS (Master of Animation).

Yusuf has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University and has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1998.

If you are interested in computer games as a research area, join the Games Studio, come to our meetings and start building the technology and understanding for the next generation games. I teach Game Design and Game Programming every year. Look under 'teaching' for more details on those subjects.

The 5th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2010) 19-21 June 2010, Asilomar, Monterey, California, USA

Every student can learn,
just not on the same day,
or the same way.
George Evans

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