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Huixin Luo

Producer / Interactive Designer /Programmer

Huixin is a designer, programmer, and artist interested in creating powerful interactive experiences. She graduated from interactive media and game design in University of Southern California, with double minor in programming and 3D animation.

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Sitong Chen

Lead Artist/Assistant Producer

Sitong is a 3D artist with experiences in Character Art, Environment Art, Level Design, Texture Art, Visual Effects. She loves to explore new art style and merge fine art concept with technology.

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Lai Wei

UIUX Designer / Interactive Designer

Hi, I’m Lai Wei, a UX / Interaction Designer & Cat Owner. I worked on user experience design of Smart Device (loomo.com), AR/VR, APP/Web.

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Namrakant Tamrakar

Programmer

Namrakant Tamrakar is a graduate student at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He is exploring the different ways in which he can tell stories. Coming from a programming background (Computer Science and Engineering) and having an interest in animation feature movies, he is exploring himself as a technical artist. He likes sketching, life-drawing, painting, creating stop-motion animation videos, writing diary/short stories/characters and photography while solo-traveling. In his free time, he watches animated movies.

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Yue Yuan

UI / UX Designer

Yue is a UX/UI designer who is focus on research, interactive experiences and new technologies.She’s a designer by trade which makes she a firm believer that interactive should be an emotional experience that translates into a 360º story.

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Mia Zhang

UI / UX Designer

Mia is an experience designer with a background in Digital Arts and Entertainment Technology, effective at bringing projects from concept to durable prototype. Experienced in visual design, experience design, interactive technology. 

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Carl Rosendahl

Carl is a Distinguished Professor of Practice and the Director of ETC’s Silicon Valley campus. Carl joined the ETC in 2008.

Carl graduated with a BSEE from Stanford University in 1979. Seeking a way to combine his passions for filmmaking and technology, he founded Pacific Data Images in 1980. PDI became one of the pioneering and most highly innovative creators of computer animation for film and television. During his 20 years of leading the organization, PDI produced over 700 commercials, worked on visual effects for over 70 feature films and, in partnership with DreamWorks SKG, produced the hit animated film “Antz” and the Academy Award winning “Shrek.” Carl received multiple Emmy Awards and in 1998 was recognized with a Technical Achievement Academy Award for PDI’s contributions to modern filmmaking. In early 2000 he sold PDI to DreamWorks SKG.

From 2000 through 2002, Carl was a Managing Director at Mobius Venture Capital (formerly Softbank Venture Capital) where he focused on investments in the technology and media space.

Carl was a founding board member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) in 1995 and served as the Chair of the Society’s Board of Directors from 2004 through 2006. The Visual Effects Society is an organization comprised of over 1,500 visual effects professionals who desire to honor, advance and promote visual effects for its membership and the industry as a whole.

In addition, Carl consults for a number of companies, where he specializes in helping to direct and manage creative organizations that are technology based.

Carl is married and has two sons. He is a practicing amateur musician, enjoys building original projects (such as a functioning electric guitar built with Lego), and participating in outdoor activities such as fly fishing and wakeboarding.

Scott Stevens

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.