People

EIS members may be students (from the Computational Media, Digital Art and New Media, and Computer Science programs), post-docs, visiting scholars, or faculty.

Former members of EIS are now in a wide range of roles. They are faculty at institutions such as American University, Cal Poly Pomona, Georgia Tech, Goldsmiths, Pomona College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, University of Central Florida, and University of New Orleans. They are in industry at companies such as BBN, Caledonia, Electronic Arts, Funomena, Google, Kabam, Spirit AI, Trion Worlds, Y Combinator Research, and Zynga.

Core Faculty

Michael Mateas

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Ph.D. Students

Master's Students

Cyril Focht
Nick Junius
Jordan Magnuson
Elisabeth (Beth) Oliver

Diaspora

Matthew Balousek (M.F.A.)
Bryan Blackford (M.S.)
Duncan Bowsman (M.F.A.)
Sherol Chen
Mirjam Eladhari (Visiting Scholar)
Teale Fristoe (M.S.)
Chaim Gingold (Ph.D.)
Katherine Green (M.F.A.)
John Grey (A.B.D.)
Alexandra Holloway (Ph.D.)
Ken Hullett (Ph.D.)
Martin Jennings-Teats (M.S.)
Eric Kaltman (Ph.D.)
Sarah Fay Krom (M.F.A.)
Larry LeBron (M.S.)
Chris Lewis (Ph.D.)
Heather Logas (M.F.A.)
Ronald Liu (M.S.)
Paul Maddaloni (M.S.)
Chris Martens (Post-Doc)
Peter Mawhorter (Ph.D.)
Josh McCoy (Ph.D., Post-Doc)
Wes Modes (M.F.A.)
John Murray (Ph.D.)
Mark Nelson (Ph.D.)
Joseph Osborn (Ph.D.)
Alexei Othenin-Girard (M.F.A.)
Adrian Phillips (M.F.A.)
James Pollack (M.F.A.)
Aaron Reed (M.F.A., Ph.D.)
Allie Riggs (M.F.A.)
James Ryan (Ph.D.)
Serdar Sali (Ph.D.)
Ben Samuel (Ph.D., Post-Doc)
James Skorupski
Adam Smith (Ph.D.)
Gillian Smith (Ph.D.)
Benjamin Spalding (M.F.A.)
Dietrich Squinkifer (M.F.A.)
Christina Strong (Ph.D.)
Anne M. Sullivan (Ph.D.)
Adam Summerville (Ph.D.)
Brandon Tearse (Ph.D.)
Mike Treanor (M.F.A., Ph.D.)
Michael Thomét (M.F.A.)
Marcelo Viana Neto (M.F.A.)
Ben Weber (Ph.D.)