Principal Computational Media Faculty
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Collaborating Faculty
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Assistant Professor Digital Art & New Media |
Professor Theater Arts |
Assistant Professor APGM |
Associate Professor Digital Art & New Media |
Assistant Professor Film & Digital Media |
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Assistant Professor Film & Digital Media |
Professor Film & Digital Media |
Assistant Professor Digital Art & New Media |
Associate Professor ECE |
Current Students
| Name | Contact | Program | Advisor |
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| Abramov, David | dabramov@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Acharya, Devi | dacharya@ucsc.edu | PhD | Wardrip-Fruin |
| Aljammaz, Rehaf | raljamma@ucsc.edu | PhD | Mateas |
| Altarriba Bertran, Ferran | faltarri@ucsc.edu | PhD | Isbister |
| Arevalo Escobar, Stefany | stgareva@ucsc.edu | Masters | Forbes |
| Aytemiz, Batu | baytemiz@ucsc.edu | PhD | Smith |
| Baltaxe-Admony, Bre | bbateni@ucsc.edu | PhD | Whitehead |
| Bateni, Bahar | bcchao@ucsc.edu | Masters | Forbes |
| Calderwood, Alex | acalde24@ucsc.edu | PhD | Mateas |
| Chaudhary, Akash | achaud10@ucsc.edu | Masters | Forbes |
| Conde, Samantha | sconde@ucsc.edu | PhD | Kurniawan |
| Crosby, Alison | arcrosby@ucsc.edu | PhD | Kurniawan |
| Cuerdo, Marjorie | mcuerdo@ucsc.edu | PhD | Melcer |
| Dagan-Peled, Ella | edaganpe@ucsc.edu | PhD | Isbister |
| Diez, John Dominic | jdiez@ucsc.edu | Masters | Melcer |
| Duplantis, Tamara | tduplant@ucsc.edu | PhD | Altice |
| Duval, Jared | jduval@ucsc.edu | PhD | Kurniawan |
| Eagle, Tessa | teagle@ucsc.edu | PhD | Whittaker |
| Ehrlich, Drew | deehrlic@ucsc.edu | Masters | Forbes |
| Elor, Aviv | aelor@ucsc.edu | PhD | Kurniawan |
| Fey, James | jfey@ucsc.edu | PhD | Isbister |
| Fowler, Montana | mocfowle@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Gonzalez, Kyle | kgonza63@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Habibi, Rëza | rehabibi@ucsc.edu | PhD | Seif El-Nasr |
| Hakimshafaei, Milad | mhakimsh@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Jawad, Abdul | abjawad@ucsc.edu | PhD | Whitehead |
| Jewett, Celeste | rjewett@ucsc.edu | Masters | Altice |
| Ji, Chen | cji40@ucsc.edu | PhD | Isbister |
| Johnson-Bey, Shi | ismajohn@ucsc.edu | PhD | Mateas |
| Joslyn, Maxwell | mjoslyn@ucsc.edu | Masters | Mateas |
| Junius, Nick | njunius@ucsc.edu | PhD | Carstensdottir |
| Karth, Isaac | ikarth@ucsc.edu | PhD | Smith |
| Kashanimoghaddam, Atieh | atkashan@ucsc.edu | PhD | Seif El-Nasr |
| Keehl, Saya | okeehl@ucsc.edu | PhD | Melcer |
| Kleinman, Erica | emkleinm@ucsc.edu | PhD | Seif El-Nasr |
| Kreminski, Max | mkremins@ucsc.edu | PhD | Wardrip-Fruin |
| Kuznetsov, Maxim | maakuzne@ucsc.edu | PhD | Kurniawan |
| Larsen, Bjarke | balarsen@ucsc.edu | PhD | Carstensdottir |
| Lei, Kehua | klei4@ucsc.edu | PhD | Lee |
| Lietz, Rebecca | rlietz@ucsc.edu | PhD | Whittaker |
| Maram, Sai Siddartha | samaram@ucsc.edu | PhD | Seif El-Nasr |
| Mishra, Achala | amishra1@ucsc.edu | Masters | Kurniawan |
| Osborne, Anya | akolesni@ucsc.edu | PhD | Isbister |
| Otto, Jasmine | jtotto@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Palea, Dustin | dpalea@ucsc.edu | PhD | Lee |
| Paranjape, Ishaan | iparanja@ucsc.edu | PhD | Whitehead |
| Pettitt, Jared | jpettitt@ucsc.edu | PhD | Altice |
| Rivera, Veronica | veariver@ucsc.edu | PhD | Lee |
| Stolee, Mirek | mstolee@ucsc.edu | Masters | Altice |
| Taber, Lee | ltaber@ucsc.edu | PhD | Whittaker |
| Thang, Tiffany | tthang@ucsc.edu | PhD | Kurniawan |
| Thomas, Manu | mthomas6@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Tsai, Chiatien | ctsai31@ucsc.edu | Masters | Smith |
| Weatherwax, Kevin | keweathe@ucsc.edu | PhD | Takayama |
| Weekley, Jeff | jweekley@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
| Yang, Chun-Liang | cyang108@ucsc.edu | Masters | Kurniawan |
| Zhou, Henry | hzhou55@ucsc.edu | PhD | Forbes |
Ph.D. Alumni
| Name | Year | Dissertation Title | Advisor | Post-Graduation Placement |
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| Nascimento Ferreira, Lucas | 2021 |
Controlling Neural Language Models for Affective Music Composition |
Whitehead | |
Cottrell, Peter  |
2021 | Supporting Self-Regulation with Deformable Controllers | Isbister | |
| Anderson, Barrett |
2020 | Searching Within and Across Games | Smith | |
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Mobramaein, Afshin* |
2020 | Natural Language Interfaces for Procedural Content Generation in Games | Whitehead | Sauce Labs |
| Behrooz, Morteza* |
2019 | Curating Interest in Open Story Generation | Jhala | |
| Compton, Kate* |
2019 | Casual Creators: Defining a Genre of Autotelic Creativity Support Systems | Mateas | Self-Employed |
| Compton, Ryan* |
2019 | Social Role Temporal Dynamics and Interactions in Online Communities: How are Leaders and Members Different? | Whittaker | Quantiply |
| Leece, Michael* |
2019 | Learning Hierarchical Abstractions from Human Demonstrations for Application-Scale Domains | Jhala | |
| Mazeika, Stella* | 2019 | Hierarchical Style Modeling: A Generative Framework for Style-Centric Generation of 3D Models | Whitehead | |
| Santarra, Trevor* |
2019 | Communicating Plans in Ad Hoc Multiagent Teams | Jhala | Unity |
| Smith, Sean-Ryan* |
2019 | ACSAS: A Web-Based Ambulatory Cognitive Self-Assessment System for Older Adults | Kurniawan | |
| Springer, Aaron* |
2019 | Accurate, Fair and Explainable: Building Human-Centered AI | Whittaker | |
| Murray, John* |
2018 | Telltale Hearts: Encoding Cinematic Choice-Based Adventure Games | Wardrip-Fruin | Faculty, University of Central Florida |
| Osborn, Joseph* | 2018 | Operationalizing Operational Logics | Mateas | Faculty, Pomona College |
| Ryan, James |
2018 | Curating Simulated Storyworlds | Mateas | BBN Technologies |
| Summerville, Adam* | 2018 | Learning from Games for Generative Purposes | Mateas | Faculty, Cal Poly Pomona |
| Tearse, Brandon* |
2018 | Skald: Exploring Story Generation and Interactive Storytelling by Reconstructing Minstrel | Wardrip-Fruin | |
| Kaltman, Eric* |
2017 | The Stabilization, Exploration, and Expression of Computer Game History | Wardrip-Fruin | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Reed, Aaron* |
2017 | Changeful Tales: Design-Driven Approaches Toward More Expressive Story Games | Wardrip-Fruin | Spirit AI |
| Rubin, Zachary* |
2017 | Development and Evaluation of Software Tools for Speech Therapy | Kurniawan | Faculty, Renton Technical College |
| Adams, Dustin* |
2016 | Facilitating Independence for Photo Taking and Browsing by Blind Persons | Kurniawan | Indeed.com |
| Gingold, Chaim* |
2016 | Play Design | Mateas | Hack Computer |
| Mawhorter, Peter* | 2016 | Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Understanding Narrative Choices | Mateas | Faculty, Wellesley College |
| Samuel, Benjamin* | 2016 | Crafting Stories Through Play | Wardrip-Fruin | Faculty, University of New Orleans |
| Lewis, Chris* | 2013 | Motivational Design Patterns | Whitehead | |
| Slater, Mark* | 2013 | Academic Knowledge Transfer in Social Networks | Whitehead | |
| Treanor, Mike* |
2013 | Investigating Procedural Expression and Interpretation in Videogames | Mateas | Faculty, American University |
| Arteaga, Sonia* | 2012 | Design and Evaluation of Game Application Requirements to Promote Physical Activity in Teenagers | Kurniawan | Faculty, Hartnell College |
| Hullett, Ken* |
2012 | The Science of Level Design: Design Patterns and Analysis of Player Behavior in First-Person Shooter Levels | Whitehead | Kabam |
| McCoy, Josh* |
2012 | All the World's a Stage: A Playable Model of Social Interaction Inspired by Dramaturgical Analysis | Mateas | Faculty, UC Davis |
| Sali, Serdar* |
2012 | Playing with Words: From Intuition to Evaluation of Game Dialogue Interfaces | Mateas | Tagged |
| Smith, Adam* |
2012 | Mechanizing Exploratory Game Design | Mateas | Faculty, UC Santa Cruz |
| Smith, Gillian* |
2012 | Expressive Design Tools: Procedural Content Generation for Game Designers | Whitehead | Faculty, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Sullivan, Anne* |
2012 | The Grail Framework: Making Stories Playable on Three Levels in CRPGs | Mateas | Faculty, Georgia Tech |
| Weber, Ben* |
2012 | Integrating Learning in a Multi-Scale Agent | Mateas | Zynga |
Students with * by name studied under other programs, but were supervised by Computational Media faculty.
M.S. Alumni
| Name | Year | Thesis/Project Title | Chair | Post-Graduation Placement |
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| Chao, Bryan | 2021 | Improving VR Social Interactions With Architectural Spacing Strategies | Forbes | |
| Mui, Wilson | 2021 | Generating Images With Free-Form Text Grids | Smith | |
| Oliver, Elisabeth | 2021 | Crosston Tavern: Modulating Autonomous Characters Behaviour through Player-NPC Conversation | Wardrip-Fruin | |
| Yang, Chun-Liang | 2021 | Mood Improvement with Empathetic Chatbot in Relaxing Virtual Environment | Kurniawan | |
| Frost, Sarah |
2020 | Machine Learning for Social Good | Forbes | UC Irvine |
| Mayben, Alexander | 2020 | Tabletop Role-Playing Game Design Through a Pattern Language Software Model | Wardrip-Fruin | |
| Fernandes, Sean | 2020 | Supporting Collaboration in Social VR | Isbister | |
| Gooranorimi, Hadiseh | 2020 | Expansion upon a Speech Therapy Mobile Game for Children with Cleft Palate to Help Them to Pronounce Sounds | Whitehead | |
| Dubey, Mahika |
2019 | Interactive Style Transfer for Data Visualization and Data Art | Forbes | Tesla |
| Focht, Cyril |
2019 | Sonder: An Examination of How Choice Creates Meaning and the Narrative Effects of Agency | Wardrip-Fruin | Self-Employed, Interaction Design Consultant |
| Junius, Nick |
2019 | Puppitor: Building an Acting Interface for Videogames | Wardrip-Fruin | MFA Student |
| Rothfeld, Dylan |
2019 | Examining User Interaction and Performance When Taking the Trail Making Test on Different Mediums | Whitehead | |
| Zhang, Zooey |
2019 | Navigating Moments in Videogames | Smith | |
| Zhou, Jimmy |
2019 | Astaire, a Collocated Physical Virtual Reality Game | Isbister | Epic Games |
| Fitch, Ruben* |
2018 | Parallelizing Wave Function Collapse | Smith | |
| Jhaveri, Samvid |
2018 | Supporting Social Activities in VR | Isbister | Baker Hughes, a GE Company |
| Robinson, Raquel |
2018 | All the Feels: A Twitch Overlay that Displays Streamers' Biometrics to Spectators | Isbister | PhD Student |
| Yin, Yi |
2018 | FxMaster: A Music Game Prototype for Visual Direction | Whitehead | Zoosk |
| Pang, Joshua |
2017 | World Game: An MS Thesis on Engineering Buckminster Fuller's Unfinished Computer Game | Mateas | The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller |
| Bhatnagar, Saumya* |
2016 | Developing a Web Platform to Strategically Evolve Corporate Social Responsibility | Kurniawan | Involvesoft |
| Buschmann, Luke* |
2015 | Virtual Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy for Stroke Survivors with Hemiparesis | Kurniawan | IBM |
| Holloway, Alexandra* |
2015 | System Design and Evaluation of the Prepared Partner: A Labor and Childbirth Game | Kurniawan | NASA JPL |
| Parrish, Jennifer* | 2014 | HikeFinder Application | Kurniawan | Faculty, De Anza College |
| Heller, Dan* |
2013 | Kurniawan | Ontera (fka Two Pore Guys) | |
| LeBron, Larry* |
2013 | Dynamic Stakes Management for Video Games | Wardrip-Fruin | Playabl Studios |
| Liu, Ronald* | 2011 | Timing Typing: Evaluating Effects of Various Time Models in a Natural Language Interface | Wardrip-Fruin | |
| Jennings-Teats, Martin* |
2010 | Polymorph: Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Through Level Generation | Wardrip-Fruin | Trion Worlds |
Students with * by name studied under other programs, but were supervised by Computational Media faculty.
Computational Media Program Contacts
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Michael Mateas |
Vacant
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