Yusuf Pisan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is director of the Games Studio and co-director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios. His research interests include enabling technologies for computer games and the design of virtual environments that support collaborative work.

In 2010, Yusuf was selected as the Program Chair for the Foundations of Digital Games Conference, the first time that position has been offered to someone residing outside the United States. In 2007, Yusuf 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 for more than a decade.

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 7th ACM Creativity & Cognition Conference 2009 Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA

The 6th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE2009) December 14-16, 2009, Sydney, Australia

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