I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at The University of Technology, Sydney in Australia. I am the co-director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios and the director of Games Studio where we do funky research in digital media and arts, trying to understand how technology and art mesh.

Dr Yusuf Pisan received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University, USA. He is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney and the co-director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS), an internationally recognized research group with eight researchers and over fifteen PhD students. His research interests include enabling technologies for computer games and the design of virtual environments that support collaborative work.

Yusuf initiated and chaired the first Interactive Entertainment conference, which is now established as an annual conference series. He has been appointed to head the International Game Developers Association's (IGDA) task force to design a model curriculum for game studies. Yusuf is one of the founders of the Sydney Chapter of ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), which has become a key group that brings together academics and practitioners. Yusuf introduced the first advanced subjects on computer games in Australia, designed the Bsc in Games Development course and serves as the Faculty of IT representative to oversee the cross-faculty Master of Animation course.

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.

IE2008: The 5th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 3-5 December 2008, Brisbane, Australia

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein

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