People
Co-Director, Lecturer
Dr Jaime Garcia is a Senior Lecturer in Games Development at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). His research interests lie in exploring the use of interactive video game technologies as a tool to improve physical and mental health of the elderly. |
Co-Director, Lecturer
Dr William L. Raffe is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Software, Co-Director of the Games Studio research lab, Program Coordinator of the BSc. in Games Development, and a member of the Faculty Board for the Faculty of Engineering and IT. |
Lecturer
Dr Luke Mathieson is a theoretical computer scientist and a Lecturer at UTS. His research is centred on parameterised complexity and its applications, but extends to a variety of areas of complexity theory, algorithmics and mathematics. |
Associate Investigator
Dr Peter William Stubbs is a Lecturer with the Discipline of Physiotherapy at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). His research interests include developing novel rehabilitation strategies to improve health outcomes of elderly and people with neurological injury. |
Associate Investigator
Dr Deborah Fox is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and core member of the Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health at UTS. She is an Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal 'Midwifery' and supervises Honours, Masters and PhD research students in midwifery and public health. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Songjia Shen is a PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Elena is an early-career researcher at PERSWADE Center of Faculty of IT and Engineering, UTS. Among the topics of her research interest are gamification, interactive visualization, participatory modeling, stakeholder management and sustainability. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Ezwan is a PhD candidate and also a member of UTS Games Studio. His research is focusing on Serious Games to Empower Emotional Change for Paediatric Cancer Patients. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Fiza Mughal is a Masters by Research student at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She is focusing on using smart wearables and machine learning to detect depression in geriatric people to aid them in having a better quality of life while living alone. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Fernanda Tavares received the B.S and M.S. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Andres Pinilla Palacios holds a M.Sc. Degree in Psychology from the National University of Colombia, where he conducted original research about emotional contagion. He has a background in Graphics Design and Front-End Development. |
Ph.D. Candidate
Mr Gemechu Kumera is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Health, UTS. |
Masters by Research
Edward graduated with a B.Sc in Games Development at UTS and is now conducting research in Computing Sciences with a focus on Cooperative AI which covers topics including Reinforcement Learning, Clustering and Dimension Reduction. |
Masters by Research
Kyle is currently working through a Masters by Research project at UTS after completing his B.Sc in Games Development. His focus is on PGC (Procedural Content Generation) and finding ways to use PCG to create an environment that best facilitates emergent gameplay. |
Graduate (Master's by Research)
After completing his BSc in Games Development, Andrew is now undertaking a MSc (Res) in Computing Sciences with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. |