Professional Activities

Awards and Recognition

  • Forbes 30 Under 30 in Games, 2015
  • IEEE CIS Outstanding Paper Award, 2017
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE COG 2019
  • Best Paper Award, ICCC 2018
  • Best Paper Award, ACM FDG 2015
  • Best Paper Award, AISB 2014
  • Best Paper Award, Evo* 2012
  • Nominated: Star of the Future Award, UK Games Industry awards 2015
  • Nominated: Technical Innovation Award, UK Games Industry awards 2015
  • Winner, I'm A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here, 2012

Journal Editing and Reviewing

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Games (2018-present)
  • Guest Editor, IEEE TCIAIG Special Issue on AI-Assisted Game Design (2018)
  • Reviewer, ACM Creativity and Cognition journal
  • Reviewer, Games and Culture journal
  • Reviewer, Virtual Reality (VIRE) journal
  • Reviewer, CRC Press
  • Reviewer, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • Reviewer, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)
  • Reviewer, IEEE Computation on Games (CoG)
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC)
  • Reviewer, ACM Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)
  • Reviewer, ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY)
  • Reviewer, Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA)
  • Reviewer, Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EVO*)
  • Reviewer, Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)

Juries and Judging

  • External Grant Reviewer, Canadian NSERC
  • Judge, Independent Games Festival (2017-present)
  • Judge, Malta Games Fund (2018)
  • Judge, Generative Design in Minecraft (2018-present)
  • Judge, JS13K Game Competition (2018)

Panels

  • AI and Games - EGX Rezzed, 2019
  • AI and the Future of Gaming - Guardian Live, 2016
  • Can Computers Be Feminist? - Different Games, 2015
  • The Future of Computational Creativity - ICCC, 2014
  • The Future of Game AI - Develop Conference, 2013

Thesis Committees

  • Ahmed Khalifa, NYU (2020)

Event Organisation

  • Foundations of Digital Games - Keynotes Chair, Panel Chair (2020)
  • International Conference on Computational Creativity - Program Chair (2019)
  • Dagstuhl Seminar 17471 - Organiser (2017)
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games - Publicity Chair (2017)
  • Procedural Content Generation Workshop - Steering Committee (2016-present)
  • AAAI Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment - Playable Experiences Chair (2015)
  • The Procedural Generation Jam - Founder, Organiser (2014-present)
  • International Conference on Computational Creativity - Publicity Chair (2014, 2015)
  • Computational Creativity and Games Workshop at ICCC - Co-Founder, Organiser (2014, 2015)
  • AI and Games Symposium at AISB - Publicity Chair (2014)
  • Experimental AI in Games Workshop at AIIDE - Co-Founder, Organiser, Steering Committee (2013-present)
  • Imperial College Games and Media Event - Organiser (2008-2011)

Invited Talks

  • Please see my talks page for a comprehensive list.