Moe Aguilar
Moe is a Technical Artist and Narrative Designer with a background in Animation and Game Development.
Autumn Chan
Engineer
Fay Li
Artist
Ben Morris
Programmer
Max Zhang
Artist
Max Zhou
Programmer
Instructor & Consultant
Dave Culyba
Instructor
Dave Culyba is an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Curriculum at the Entertainment Technology Center. He teaches Building Virtual Worlds, one of the four immersion courses for new students. Through his courses, he focuses on game design, transformational design and experience design — particularly as they intersect with technology. As the Director of Curriculum his focus is on developing new ways for creative professionals to plan, create and problem solve as teams.
Vivian Shen
Consultant
Professor Vivian Shen is a faculty member at the Entertainment Technology Center, where she teaches classes focused on AI and hardware for games and experimental media. She comes directly from finishing her PhD at CMU’s Robotics Institute, with the Future Interfaces Group. Her background lies in embedded systems, sensing and VR/AR, and much of her work is focused on creating new systems and devices for haptics and interaction. She has published at several premier Human-Computer Interaction conferences (CHI, UIST, etc.), and her work has been featured on NBC, TechCrunch, CNN and more. Outside of the PhD, Vivian has interned at companies such as Meta Reality Labs, Disney Research, NASA JPL, etc. In her free time, Vivian plays a LOT of ultimate frisbee and does chainmaille art!
Client
Jesse Schell
Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of more than one hundred fifty people who strive to make truly great games, both for the purposes of entertainment and education, including award-winning VR games such as Among Us VR and I Expect You To Die 1, 2 & 3. Jesse serves as Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of the award-winning book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.
Schell Games
Schell Games is a full-service game development company with the experience to develop even the most experimental projects.