Students
WEI CHENG (JIMMY) CHEN
First-year student
Role(s): Programmer
Jimmy is a graduate student at the Entertainment Technology Center, mainly focusing on game development and game design.
CHANG (IVY) LIU
First-year student
Role(s): UI/UX Designer / 2D Artist
Ivy Liu is a designer specialized in UI/UX. She also does 2D and 3D art.
XIAOYING MENG
First-year student
Role(s): 3D Artist / Co-Producer
Xiaoying Meng is a current first year at the Entertainment Technology Center. As a game designer, Xiaoying worked with student teams to design and build several game projects.
MARÍA LAURA MIRABELLI
First-year student
Role(s): UX Designer / Co-Producer
María Laura is a designer and creative technologist experienced in interactive media and teaching. Her focus is the intersection of art + design + technology + education.
YU (ERIC) ZHU
Second-year student
Role(s): Programmer
Yu (Eric) Zhu is a physicist by training, passionate about creating novel experiences in science education with AR/VR/AI.
Instructors
RUTH COMLEY
Ruth Comley is an educator that has been teaching undergrad and graduate classes for 26 years in the areas of digital art, experience design and project management. She has a Specialized Associates degree in Industrial Design, a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science and a Masters of Entertainment degree in Entertainment Technology.
Currently Ruth is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches classes in Project Production, Digital Art and Experience Design. She is also a Founding Member of Stage and Steel Productions and an active Board member of Striplight Community Theater. There she designs and produces seasonal festivals and events while also writing, producing, and directing theatrical plays.
SCOTT STEVENS
Scott Stevens has extensive experience in the areas of games, and augmented and virtual reality for education. He has been involved with multimedia research and development for over forty years. Scott began his career at CMU in 1987 in the Software Engineering Institute, and moved to the Human Computer Interaction Institute in 1996. Also beginning in 1996, he taught part-time at the then newly created Entertainment Technology Center. Scott joined the ETC full-time in 2008.
Scott received his B.S. and M.S.Ed. degrees in physics from Northern Illinois University and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has spoken internationally on computer science and artificial intelligence’s impact on education and interactive entertainment and has written over one hundred professional papers, talks, and book chapters. He is a holder of three patents related to digital video and Synthetic Interviews.