Principal Computational Media Faculty
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Collaborating Faculty
Assistant Professor Digital Art & New Media |
Professor Theater Arts |
Assistant Professor APGM |
Associate Professor Digital Art & New Media |
Assistant Professor Film & Digital Media |
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 | |
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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