Moves and Updates

Notable moves

People in bold on the researchers list who changed jobs.

May 2023

• Regan L. Mandryk: University of Saskatchewan to University of Victoria
• Josh Aaron Miller*: Northeastern University to Activision Blizzard

April 2023

• Lucas Ferreira: University of Alberta (Canada) to Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil)

February 2023

• Martin Pichlmair: IT University of Copenhagen to Independent/Other [primary affiliation change]

January 2023

• Isaac Karth*: University of California Santa Cruz to Liminal Inc.
• Matthew Stephenson: Maastricht University (Netherlands) to Flinders University (Australia)

December 2022

• Joseph Alexander Brown: Brock University to Thompson Rivers University
• Simon M. Lucas: Meta to Queen Mary University of London [primary affiliation change]

September 2022

• Felix Born*: University of Duisburg-Essen to Independent/Other
• Michael Cook: Queen Mary University of London to King's College London
• Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jørgensen: IT University of Copenhagen to University of Southern Denmark
• Max Kreminski*: University of California Santa Cruz to Santa Clara University
• Elisa D. Mekler: Aalto University (Finland) to IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• James Owen Ryan: Carleton College to Hexagram

August 2022

• Simone Downie*: Ohio State University to Illinois State University
• Gabriele Ferri: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to Eindhoven University of Technology
• Michael Cerny Green*: New York University to Independent/Other
• Chris Martens: North Carolina State University to Northeastern University
• Justus Robertson: Kennesaw State University to Rochester Institute of Technology
• Katja Rogers: University of Waterloo (Canada) to University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Alireza Shirvani: Saint Louis University to Tulane University
• Adam Summerville: California State Polytechnic University Pomona to The Molasses Flood

June 2022

• Zuozhi Yang*: Drexel University to Tencent

May 2022

• Michael S. Debus: IT University of Copenhagen to Bright Star Studios

April 2022

• Daniel A. Ashlock sadly passed away on April 5, 2022 [Obituary]
• Melanie Dickinson: Zynga to dj2 Entertainment
• Julian Frommel: University of Saskatchewan (Canada) to Utrecht University (Netherlands)

March 2022

• Batu Aytemiz*: University of California Santa Cruz to Agentic
• Nicole Basaraba: Maastricht University (Netherlands) to Coventry University (UK)
• Alexander Dockhorn: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg to Leibniz University Hannover
• Judith van Stegeren*: University of Twente to Independent/Other

February 2022

• Sebastian Deterding: University of York to Imperial College London
• Lucas Ferreira*: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Edward J. Powley: Falmouth University to Beesting Labs
• María Cecilia Reyes: Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany) to Vilnius University (Lithuania)

January 2022

• Joseph Alexander Brown: Innopolis University (Russia) to Brock University (Canada)
• Alena Denisova: City University of London to University of York

December 2021

• Enrica Loria: Graz University of Technology (Austria) to Keen Software House (Czech Rep.)
• Argenis Ramirez Gomez: Cardiff University to University of Portsmouth

November 2021

• Kei Kobayashi*: University of Tsukuba to Nagoya City University
• Alexander Zook: Unity Technologies to Nvidia

October 2021

• Alireza Shirvani*: University of Kentucky to Saint Louis University

September 2021

• Rodrigo Canaan*: New York University to California Polytechnic State University
• Anders Drachen: University of York (UK) to University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
• April Grow: Goldsmiths University of London (UK) to California Polytechnic State University (USA)

August 2021

• Bob De Schutter: Miami University to Northeastern University
• Zhuying Li*: Monash University (Australia) to Southeast University (China)
• Jan D. Smeddinck: Newcastle University (UK) to Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (Austria)

July 2021

• Rina R. Wehbe*: University of Waterloo to Dalhousie University

June 2021

• Ahmed Khalifa: New York University (USA) to University of Malta (Malta)

May 2021

• Enrica Loria: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) to Graz University of Technology (Austria)
• Henrik Warpefelt: Södertörn University (Sweden) to Kennesaw State University (USA)

April 2021

• Phil Lopes: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) to Lusofona University (Portugal)
• Morgan McGuire: Nvidia to Roblox Corporation

March 2021

• Stella Mazeika: Gallium Artists to Google
• Alex Moseley: University of Leicester to Anglia Ruskin University
• Gustavo Fortes Tondello: University of Waterloo to Independent/Other
• Günter Wallner: Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) to Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) [primary affiliation change]

February 2021

• Nicole Basaraba: Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) to Maastricht University (Netherlands)

January 2021

• Markus Eger: University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica) to California State Polytechnic University Pomona (USA)
• Sergio Estupiñán*: University of Geneva to Beekee LCC [primary affiliation change]
• Graham Kendall: University of Nottingham to Independent/Other [retired]
• Mehmet Kosa: Middle East Technical University (Turkey) to Arizona State University (USA)
• María Cecilia Reyes: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) to Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany)
• Justus Robertson: University of York (UK) to Kennesaw State University (USA)
• Jichen Zhu: Drexel University (USA) to IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

December 2020

• Simon M. Lucas: Queen Mary University of London to Facebook [primary affiliation change]
• Aung Pyae: Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) to Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
• Ari Shapiro: Embody Digital to ByteDance

October 2020

• Argenis Ramirez Gomez*: Lancaster University to Cardiff University
• Hubert P. H. Shum: Northumbria University to Durham University

September 2020

• Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari: Södertörn University to Stockholm University
• Erica Kleinman: Northeastern University to University of California Santa Cruz
• Bjarke Alexander Larsen: Aalborg University (Denmark) to University of California Santa Cruz (USA)
• James Ryan: BBN Technologies to Carleton College

August 2020

• Kate Compton: University of California Santa Cruz to Northwestern University
• Bernhard Maurer: University of Salzburg to Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
• Aline Normoyle: Swarthmore College to Bryn Mawr College
• Aaron A. Reed: Spirit AI to Independent/Other
• Riemer van Rozen: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
• Richard Zhao: Pennsylvania State University Behrend (USA) to University of Calgary (Canada)

July 2020

• M. Brandon Haworth: York University to University of Victoria
• Magy Seif El-Nasr: Northeastern University to University of California Santa Cruz

June 2020

• Ari Shapiro: University of Southern California to Embody Digital

May 2020

• Teun Dubbelman: HKU University of the Arts Utrecht to Avans University of Applied Sciences

April 2020

• Adrian David Cheok: Independent/Other to i-University Tokyo (Japan)

March 2020

• Peter Christiansen*: University of Utah to Independent/Other
• Valentina Nisi: University of Madeira to University of Lisbon

February 2020

• Johan Hagelbäck: Linnaeus University to Independent/Other
• Daniel Karavolos*: University of Malta (Malta) to Beyond Sports (Netherlands)
• Katja Rogers*: Ulm University (Germany) to University of Waterloo (Canada)

January 2020

• Peter I. Cowling: University of York to Queen Mary University of London
• Julian Frommel*: Ulm University (Germany) to University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
• Levi Lelis: Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Elena Márquez Segura*: Uppsala University (Sweden) to University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
• Rebecca Rouse: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) to University of Skövde (Sweden)
• Alexander Zook: Activision Blizzard to Unity Technologies

November 2019

• Boyang Li: Baidu to Nanyang Technological University

October 2019

• Alice Bowman: Abertay University to Trailmix Games
• Petar Jercic: Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) to Jamzone (Netherlands)
• Justus Robertson: North Carolina State University (USA) to University of York (UK)
• Paula Alexandra Silva: University of Aveiro to University of Coimbra
• Sarah-Kristin Thiel: Aarhus University to Independent/Other

September 2019

• Matthew Guzdial*: Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Tomohiro Harada: Ritsumeikan University to Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Stella Mazeika*: University of California Santa Cruz to Gallium Artists
• Santiago Ontañón: Drexel University to Google [primary affiliation change]
• Sebastian Risi: IT University of Copenhagen to modl.ai [primary affiliation change]
• Sam Snodgrass: Northeastern University (USA) to modl.ai (Denmark)

August 2019

• Rachelyn Farrell: University of New Orleans to University of Kentucky
• Britton Horn*: Northeastern University to Trinity University
• Eric Kaltman: Carnegie Mellon University to California State University Channel Islands
• Yubo Kou: Florida State University to Pennsylvania State University
• Elisa D. Mekler: University of Basel (Switzerland) to Aalto University (Finland)

July 2019

• David Thue: Reykjavik University (Iceland) to Carleton University (Canada)
• Stephen G. Ware: University of New Orleans to University of Kentucky

June 2019

• Adrian David Cheok: Imagineering Institute to Independent/Other

May 2019

• Alessandro Canossa: Ubisoft to Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
• Joshua A. Fisher*: Georgia Institute of Technology to Columbia College Chicago
• Christoffer Holmgård: Northeastern University (USA) to modl.ai (Denmark)
• Fernando de Mesentier Silva: Independent/Other to Electronic Arts

April 2019

• Kyung-Joong Kim: Sejong University to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
• Doris C. Rusch: DePaul University (USA) to Uppsala University (Sweden)

January 2019

• Alena Denisova: Swansea University to City University of London
• Markus Eger*: North Carolina State University (USA) to University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
• Swen E. Gaudl: Falmouth University to University of Plymouth
• Benjamin Kenwright: De Montfort University to Heriot-Watt University
• Siming Liu: University of Nevada Reno to Missouri State University
• Mark J. Nelson: Falmouth University (UK) to American University (USA) [that's me!]
• Christoph Salge: New York University (USA) to University of Hertfordshire (UK) [returning from secondment]
• Matthew Stephenson*: Australian National University (Australia) to Maastricht University (Netherlands)

December 2018

• Abdallah Saffidine: Australian National University to University of New South Wales

November 2018

• Adrian David Cheok: City University of London (UK) to Imagineering Institute (Malaysia) [primary affiliation change]
• Michael Cook: Falmouth University to Queen Mary University of London
• Mike Preuss: University of Münster (Germany) to Leiden University (Netherlands)
• Günter Wallner: University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria) to Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

October 2018

• Wojciech Jaskowski: Poznan University of Technology (Poland) to NNAISENSE (Switzerland)
• James Ryan*: University of California Santa Cruz to BBN Technologies
• Christian Thurau: Twenty Billion Neurons to Independent/Other

September 2018

• Max Birk*: University of Saskatchewan (Canada) to Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
• April Grow*: University of California Santa Cruz (USA) to Goldsmiths University of London (UK)
• Andrew Nealen: New York University to University of Southern California

August 2018

• Hendrik Baier: University of York (UK) to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)
• Sharon Lynn Chu: Texas A&M to University of Florida
• Simon Colton: Falmouth University to Queen Mary University of London
• Jeremy Gow: Goldsmiths University of London to Queen Mary University of London
• Lindsay D. Grace: American University to University of Miami
• Dominic Kao*: Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Purdue University
• Yubo Kou: Purdue University to Florida State University
• Peter A. Mawhorter: Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Wellesley College
• John Murray*: University of California Santa Cruz to University of Central Florida
• Joseph C. Osborn*: University of California Santa Cruz to Pomona College
• Nathan R. Sturtevant: University of Denver (USA) to University of Alberta (Canada)
• Anne Sullivan: University of Central Florida to Georgia Institute of Technology
• Adam Summerville*: University of California Santa Cruz to California State Polytechnic University Pomona
• David R. Winer*: University of Utah to Independent/Other

July 2018

• Fernando de Mesentier Silva*: New York University to Independent/Other

June 2018

• Ben G. Weber: Independent/Other to Zynga

April 2018

• Christopher A. Ballinger: Blind Squirrel Games to Soar Technology
• Cameron Browne: RIKEN (Japan) to Maastricht University (Netherlands)

* Indicates PhD student moving to faculty, postdoc, or industry job

Changelog

July 2023

• Updated for 2023.
• There are now 2658 researchers at 860 institutions included in the list.
• DBLP parsing code update, to handle recent CHI Play proceedings published as a special issue of Proceedings of the ACM on HCI.
• Special thanks to Max Kreminski and Matthew Guzdial for sending in a bunch of information about people who have moved.
• Merged DeepMind into the Google affiliation, following the recent merger of Google's AI groups under the Google DeepMind brand.

May 2022

• An update for 2022! All 2021 conference and journal issues appear to be indexed by DBLP and included. Update: CHI Play now publishes some of its papers as a journal special issue instead of as conference proceedings, which my current code doesn't include. Will look into fixing this for the next update.
• Dropped publications from 2011 (now more than 10 years old).
• Numerous affiliation updates and additions. Now covering 2521 researchers at 830 institutions.
• Split Google DeepMind and Google into separate institutions. Though Google owns DeepMind, they seem to be run sufficiently separately to be somewhat like different campuses of the same university system (though the analogy is imperfect).

April 2021

• Updated DBLP dump. Most 2020 conferences and journal issues are now included, except AIIDE 2020, which doesn't seem to be indexed yet by DBLP.
• Dropped publications from 2010 (now more than 10 years old).
• Added two new venues: the ICGA Journal (only papers of type "Research Article"), and the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D).
• The usual batch of affiliation updates and additions. The new total is 2359 researchers at 763 institutions.

January 2020

• Updated DBLP dump; all 2019 conferences and journal issues should now be included.
• Dropped publications from 2009 (now more than 10 years old).
• Reduced the threshold for displaying per-institution "top venues" on the main page, so there are now more of them listed.
• The usual batch of affiliation updates and additions. The new total is 2140 researchers at 706 institutions.

September 2019

• Updated DBLP dump. This adds some journal issues, but no 2019 conference proceedings yet.
• Another batch of affiliation updates and additions. The new total is 2026 researchers at 679 institutions.

February 2019

• Updated DBLP dump; all 2018 conferences and journals should now be included.
• Dropped publications from 2008 (now more than 10 years old).
• Moderate number of affiliation updates and additions, bringing the total up to 1912 researchers at 637 institutions.

November 2018

• Updated DBLP dump. This adds the 2018 proceedings of AIIDE, CHI Play, CIG, FDG, and ICEC, plus some journal issues.
• Hundreds of affiliation corrections, updates, and additions. The big list now includes 1852 researchers at 618 institutions, up from 1338 researchers at 490 institutions.
• Added a list of authors still missing affiliations; any information on them is welcome.
• People who have moved to companies that don't do game-related research (e.g. moved to the finance sector) are now classified under Independent/Other.
• Removed DiGRA. Nothing wrong with the conference, but: 1) it appears to have a quite small percentage of technical papers, and 2) including it resulted in a strangely chosen subset of people and institutions from game studies being highlighted here — strange because, since I don't include any game-studies journals, other equally active researchers weren't included. Since I don't attempt to cover game studies properly, it seems better to omit DiGRA too. (For the record, this change hurts my own institution.)
• ACE 2018 imploded spectacularly, so removed ACE going forward (papers up to 2017 are still included).
• Minor cleanup to remove some non-papers that DBLP had indexed (lists of organizers, news updates from the journal editor, etc.).

March 2018

• Initial version.