Meet the Team!

Shixi Zhang

UI/UX Designer

Shixi is a UX designer with a focus on emerging technologies and immersive experiences.

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Vedantika Chaudhary

Producer

Vedantika, a game producer and designer with a CS and Product Management background, is passionate about creating impactful interactive experiences and exploring new technology in entertainment.

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Elizabeth (Libby) Egan

Producer & Experience Designer

Libby is a producer and designer of interactive and experiential media and is passionate about impactful and educational storytelling

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Yiran (Hazel) Li

Technical Artist

Hazel Li is a 3D artist and tech artist who loves pushing creative boundaries in game design, bringing immersive worlds to life through artistic expression and emotional resonance.

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Benjamin Walker

Experience Designer

Walker will found a Gaming Studio & Ent Co. and operate as its Studio Head, Lead Game Designer. The studio will specialize in minoritized-youth designed and marketed cultured immersive experiences.

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Dante (Duan) Luang

Programmer

Duan is a programmer with an interest in media design and game design.

Peter Khomchenko

Programmer

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John Dessler

John is a creative director, programmer, writer, entrepreneur, musician, performer, and digital/fine artist. He is currently special faculty at the ETC, Carnegie Mellon University teaching Visual Story/Communication, VR Story and Sound, Location-Based Entertainment, UI/UX Design, digital art and design.

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Heather Kelley

Heather Kelley is an award-winning game designer, media artist, curator, and Associate Teaching Professor at the ETC.  Her professional career began in AAA games with companies like Ubisoft, Eidos (Ion Storm), Girl Games and Behavior Interactive.  She is a founding member of the influential experimental game collective Kokoromi, developers of VR puzzle game SUPERHYPERCUBE, and she co-curated Joue le jeu, a groundbreaking exhibition of games and installations in Paris, France.  Her experimental game work focuses on unique sensory effects, integrating perceptions of touch, smell, movement, sound, and nervous system response.  Some of her research interests include disability justice and fighting climate change. Heather works to make games more accessible, equitable, and nourishing, as well as poetic and delicious.

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Vivian Shen is a PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University. She’s a fifth year in the Robotics Institute doing research with the Future Interfaces Group, advised by Prof. Chris Harrison. Her research builds on her background in embedded systems, sensing, and computer vision, and is currently focused on building novel haptic interactions that augment user experiences in mixed reality.

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