Academic and administrative staff

Visit the University Profile of each staff member for contact details. We also have a number of notable alumni.

Georgios N. Yannakakis

Full Professor
Game artificial intelligence, affective computing, computational creativity, procedural content generation

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Gordon Calleja

Associate Professor

Game analysis, game studies, media studies, incorporation, board game studies

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Stefano Gualeni

Associate Professor

Game design, existentialism, virtual worlds research, philosophy of technology, science fiction

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Antonios Liapis

Associate Professor

Procedural content generation, computational creativity, game development

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Daniel Vella

Senior Lecturer & Director

Game studies, phenomenology, narratology, aesthetics, literary theory

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Costantino Oliva

Lecturer

Game Studies, Game Design, Game Sound, Musicology, Soundscape Studies, Media Studies

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Ahmed Khalifa

Lecturer

Procedural content generation, evolutionary computation, automated game playing, game/level design, game development/prototyping, game jams

Iro Voulgari

Postdoctoral Researcher

Serious Games, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Game-Based Learning, Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Konstantinos Makantasis

Scholar in Residence

Statistical learning, deep learning, tensor-based machine learning

Daniele Gravina

Postdoctoral Researcher

Evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence

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David Melhart

Postdoctoral Researcher

Affective computing, player modelling, AI-assisted design

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Maria Kaselimi

Postodoctoral Researcher

Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Multimodal Machine Learning

Stefano Caselli

Ph.D. Student
Phenomenology, game studies, memory studies

Marvin Zammit

Ph.D. Student
Game development, procedural content generation, artificial intelligence

Emmanouil Xylakis

Ph.D. Student
Spatial forms Analysis and Generation, Virtual Environments, Design and Architecture

Chintan Trivedi

Ph.D. Student

Computer Vision, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Generative Modeling

Theodoros Galanos

Ph.D. Student

Artificial Intelligence, Design Technology, Semantic Generation

Konstantinos Sfikas

Ph.D. Student

Game development, procedural content generation, artificial intelligence

Kosmas Pinitas

Ph.D. Student

Artificial intelligence, preference learning, bio-inspired learning algorithms

Matthew Barthet

Ph.D. Student
Procedural content generation, computational creativity, artificial intelligence

Roberto Gallotta

Ph.D. student

Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Open-Ended Evolution, Procedural Content Generation

Nemanja Rasajski

Ph.D. Student
Human-like AI in video games, Generative modeling, Deep learning

Silvi Rusi

Research Support Officer (Developer)

Project Management, Data, AI

Sergio Laferla

Administrator