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Introduction to the members

Our Team:

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Scott Stevens  (Advisor/Faculty) 

Scott Stevens is senior systems scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute as well as faculty in the Entertainment Technology Center. His research interest’s lie in the emerging, complex field of multimedia. Most applications fail to take full advantage of the information bandwidth, much less the capabilities of a multimedia, digital video and audio environment. To achieve, in part, a new model of multimedia systems, Scott’s research includes interface designs that consider the complexity of multimedia objects, create high-fidelity environments, and incorporate an understanding of cinema and of digital video’s temporal, spatial, and psychological nature. Scott’s work also aspires to take the captivating power of story and fantasy, and combine it with motivating design, for applications ranging from learning and entertainment to information access and scientific visualization.

 

 

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Seewon Park –  http://c1park.wordpress.com/

Having a background in Chemistry, I sought for something that was more interactive. After playing games for several years I began to modify them in order to make it more interesting. During my undergrad, I took many electives focused on art, culture, music and on. After graduating Seoul National University, I started my second bachelors degree in the field of multimedia technology. After two years of training as a producer/designer, I’ve got my second degree and proceeded to a masters degree course in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. After being a sound designer and a texture artist in BVW(building virtual worlds) class, 2D artist in the previous project, I joined the current project as a producer and level designer

I am preparing to become a level designer, but I am also capable of modeling, sound editing, scripting along with my main skills. Due to that I understand the whole process and is able to backup any role in emergencies. My goal is to become a game designer(specialized in level design) who is capable of discussing the work process in depth with other specialists of that field. I am also very interested in understanding and analyzing the users thoughts, especially in a testing situation.

 

 

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Aditya Vijay Kumar –  www.adityavijayakumar.me

A Software Engineer by degree, a gamer by passion. Aditya has grown up playing video games and draws his inspiration from an earlier generation of games such as Doom and Populous. In the past, he has developed games for both Xbox and iOS which have been released on the app store. Aditya’s mission at the ETC is to successfully combine innovative input interaction with fun gameplay mechanics.

In GASx3 he is a game designer and programmer.

 

Kommineni, Ravi Teja

Ravi Teja Kommineni – www.ravikommineni.com

Being an ardent enthusiast of games and interactive media,Ravi, took up computer science engineering at Amrita University.At Amrita University, he self taught various software bundles related to games industry. To further enhance his skills he joined the Entertainment Technology.

 

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Victor

Jia Qin (Victor) –  www.victorqin.com

Victor is currently a graduate student at Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University. He did his undergraduate study in computational mathematics and computer science.

Besides his technical background, Victor is also a fan of art and design. He is currently a technical artist in team GASx3, doing 2d/3d art design and anything that can help artists and programmers work better together. He is now having fun with 3d modeling, rigging and MEL scripting.

Victor is also a person with diverse interest like photography, calligraphy, stamp-collecting and Chinese seal cutting.

 

Hsu, Huai-Yuan (Mike)

Mike Hsu- www.mikehyhsu.com

Huai-Yuan (Mike) Hsu is a programmer graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He has always been excited in expending all the possibilities of information technology into different fields of application. After he graduated from university, he went on to study at graduate school and received the degree of Master of Science in Biomedical and Imaging Engineering. During that period of time, he was dedicated to combining information technology with healthcare applications and doing the research of applying artificial intelligence in assisting the anesthetic processes.

Currently he is a candidate of Master of Entertainment Technology in the Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University. He is excited about contributing and working in entertainment field with his background and experiences.

Zhang, Xiaoyi

Xiaoyi Zhang – www.xiaoyi-zhang.com

Xiaoyi was fond of science since she was young. She was addicted to physics in high school and she fell in love with programming during undergraduate study. After she graduated, she finds that she likes the feeling of creating things like programming does. Now she is a first year student in ETC, Pittsburgh campus. And she is trying her best to create games with fun gameplay. She is a programmer in the team.