Bio:
Dr Yusuf Pisan received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from
Northwestern University, USA. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty
of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney and
the co-director of the Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS), an
internationally recognized research group with eight researchers and
over fifteen PhD students. His research interests include enabling
technologies for computer games and the design of virtual environments
that support collaborative work.

Yusuf initiated and chaired the first Interactive Entertainment
conference, which is now established as an annual conference series.
He has been appointed to head the International Game Developers
Association's (IGDA) task force to design a model curriculum for game
studies. Yusuf is one of the founders of the Sydney Chapter of ACM
Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), which has become a key
group that brings together academics and practitioners. Yusuf
introduced the first advanced subjects on computer games in Australia,
designed the Bsc in Games Development course and serves as the Faculty
of IT representative to oversee the cross-faculty Master of Animation
course.