About me

I'm a lecturer at the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths. with a background in artifical intelligence and human-computer interaction. My research is on computational game design: how can computers understand play and help us design video games? I have an interest in player analytics, player experience, computational creativity, procedural content generation, and game AI.

I'm also a co-investigator with the Digital Creativity Labs, York and run the IGGI PhD programme in digital games computing at Goldsmiths. IGGI has a number of four year EPSRC- funded studentships available, to start September 2017. If you're interested in applying, please get in touch, or contact potential supervisors directly.

Recent Projects

The What-If Machine (WHIM)
Concept Invention Theory (COINVENT)
Minecap, player logging in Minecraft
DReaM platform grant (with Heriot-Watt and the University of Edinburgh)

Teaching

I'm the Programme Leader for BSc in Games Programming and currently teach:

Game Development Group Projects [internal link] (Level 5)
Game AI Programming [internal link] (Level 6)
AI for Games [internal link] (Level 7) on our MSc in Computer Games and Entertainment

Selected Papers

For a fuller and more up-to-date list of publications, see my Google Scholar profile.