Sara Raasch
EGL Lab Manager
Digital Media MS
sraasch [at] gatech.edu
After recieving a Bachelors in Digital Media at the University of Central Florida, Sara worked for the United States Military and Fortune 500 companies to create training games and simulations and she also created serious games for the Kauffman Foundation. Currently she works as the lab manager for the Experimental Games Lab. Her research interest focus on game design, gameplay, serious games and alternate reality gaming. She is currently working on gameplay design for the Mermaids MMO.
Anand TM
Graduate Research Assistant, College of Computing
Emergent Game Group @ Experimental Game Lab
Anand.TM [at] gatech.edu
After pursuing his degree in Computer Science & Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, and spending a year at Oracle Corporation as a software developer, Anand is pursuing an MS in Computer Science while serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Tech. His interests are focused on areas of intelligent computing such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and autonomous robotics. His current work in EGL involves design of behavioral AI algorithms for an aquatic ecosystem of an MMORPG.
Project link:Mermaids
Personal Link: http://www.CoC.GaTech.edu/~anand
John Swisshelm
BS in Computational Media
swisshelm [at] gatech.edu
Spent the last few years developing all manner of crazy games. Interested in fun game controllers, exploring theological metaphors through gameplay and design, imagination as a key factor in games and toys, rock and roll karaoke, and extremely spicy food.
Projects: XNA Playing
Jose P. Zagal
PhD Candidate, College of Computing
jp [at] cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jp/
Jose Zagal is a PhD candidate in the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has an MSc in engineering sciences and a BS in industrial engineering from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. His research interests include the use of online communities for collaborative learning and the development of frameworks for describing, analyzing, and understanding games. He is a member of the Electronic Learning Communities Lab and the Experimental Game Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. In his free time he loves to design and play games.
Current Projects: Game Ontology Project, GameLog
Mark Nelson
CoC PhD Student
mnelson [at] cc.gatech.edu
Current Project: Procedural Rhetoric and Game Generation
Ogechi Nnadi
Ogechi Nnadi
Computer Science Ph.D. student
ogechi.nnadi [at] gatech.edu
I’m working in Michael Nitsche’s DWIG group on testing the effectiveness of interactive camera schemes on player perception of 3D worlds in the game, Charbitat.
I am interested in programming frameworks and development environments that make it easier for programmers to create games.
Tanla Bilir
Master’s Student, Digital Media
tanla [at] gatech.edu
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~tbilir3/
Tanla finished her undergraduate degree at the Department of Economics at Istanbul University. After spending 7 years in the banking sector mainly in product management and marketing departments, she followed her inner voice (call of the video games as you may say) and made a fresh start in U.S.