Alumni Talks
James Goodman
Director of Tabletop R&D
>> What has Game AI ever done for the Romans?
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Bio: James graduated with a PhD from iGGi in 2025 with work on using statistical planning algorithms in modern tabletop board games. He has since completed a short Postdoc in the Department of Classics at Reading University, whence comes the inspiration for his talk. He is a Director of Tabletop R&D, a Queen Mary spinout company, and a core contributor to the open source Tabletop Games Framework (www.tabletopgames.ai).
Jozef Kulik
Senior Research & Accessibility Lead @ PlaytestCloud
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Cristina Dobre
Applied Scientist Researcher @ University of Augsburg
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Carlos González Díaz
Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Augsburg
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Nick Ballou
Research Fellow @ Imperial College
>> Open Play: Findings and Lessons from 2 Million Hours of Public Video Games Data
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Nathan Hughes
Research Associate @ University of York
>> The Quality of Safety is... Games? An Alumn's Journey from Games Research to Safety Science
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Joseph Walton-Rivers
Lecturer @ Falmouth University
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General Chairs: Laurissa Tokarchuk, Jeremy Gow
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Programme Chair: Filip Sroka, Toby Best, Ruizhe "Jay" Yu Xia
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Outreach & Marketing Chair: Prakriti Nayak
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Poster & Workshop Chair: Dien Nguyen
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Local Chair: Karl Clarke
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Tech/Media Chairs: Karl Clarke, Prakriti Nayak
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Alumni Chair: Nicole Levermore
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General Management: Susanne Binder, David Hull
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