Dr. William L. Raffe

LEADERSHIP

BOARDS, COMMITTEES, AND GROUPS

• Co-Director (2017 - ongoing)
  Games Studio Research Lab
   

• Degree Coordinator​ (2017 - ongoing)
  Bachelor of Science in Games Development
   

• Serious Games Stream Leader (2018 - ongoing)
  Centre on Persuasive Systems for Wise Adaptive Living (PERSWADE)
   

• Co-Chair (2017 - ongoing)
  Interactive Entertainment (IE) Conference
   

• Acting Deputy Head of School (Research)
  (18th-30th Apr 2018, 9th-20th Jul 2018)
  School of Software - University of Technology Sydney
   

• Acting Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning)
  (3rd-29th Sept 2018)
  School of Software - University of Technology Sydney

• School of Software Representative (2018 - ongoing)
  Faculty Board - UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT)

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• Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Coordinator (2018 - ongoing)
  Research Committee - UTS School of Software
   

• External Expert - Information Systems (2017-2019)
  Academic Board - Raffles College of Design and Commerce
   

• Faculty Advisor (Games) (2019 - ongoing)
  Interaction Design and Game Design Student Society
   

• Senior Member (2010 - 2017)
  RMIT Evolutionary Computing and Machine Learning Group
   

• Core Member (2014 - 2017)
  RMIT Centre for Game Design Research
   

• Associate Member (2014 - 2017)
  RMIT Exertion Games Lab

EVENT ORGANIZATION

TEACHING

• 15th Annual Interactive Entertainment (IE) Conference (Jan 2019)
   

• UTS Student Game Jam (Nov 2018)
   

• FEIT Spring Prototype Exhibition  (Nov 2018)
   

• UTS Panel on Careers in Games in Australia  (Nov 2018)
   

• Workshop on Agents and Models in Serious Games for Change and Social Good - Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Conference (Oct 2018)
   

• 2018 UTS Student Games Showcase  (Jul 2018)
   

• You + AI + Games Seminar (Oct 2017)
   

• 2017 UTS Student Games Showcase (Jul 2017)

• 41024 Advanced Games Programming (2019 - ongoing)
  Subject Coordinator / Lecturer / Head Tutor

• 31262 / 32003 Introduction to Game Design (2017 - ongoing)
  Subject Coordinator / Lecturer / Head Tutor - UTS

• 31263 / 32004 Introduction to Game Development (2017 - ongoing)
  Subject Coordinator / Lecturer / Head Tutor - UTS

• 31248 Games and Graphics Project (2017 - ongoing)
  Subject Coordinator / Supervisor - UTS

• 31264 / 32501 - Introduction to Computer Graphics (2018)
  Subject Coordinator - UTS

• 31927 / 32998 - Application Development in .NET (2017)
  Subject Coordinator - UTS

• COSC2349 - Games Studio 2 (2016)
  Lecturer

• COSC2476 - Game Mechanics and Gameplay Prog.  (2012-2016)
  Lecturer / Head Tutor

• COSC1290 Java for C Programmers (2011)
  Tutor

ENGAGEMENT

CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES

• MC and Panel Host - UTS STEM Experience Day (Dec 2018)

• Guest Lecturer - FEIT Work Experience Week - Games and Interaction Design Day (Nov 2018)

• BSc. Games Development Speaker - UTS Open Day (Aug 2018)

• Guest Judge - Centre for Indigenous Technology Research and Development High School Outreach Program (Aug 2018)

• Interviewee - Commenting on 7 News Report (Jun 2018)

• Panelist - Games for Recruitment - College of Organisational Psychology (Apr 2018)

• Guest Speaker - UTS STEM Experience Day (Dec 2017)

• BSc. Games Development Speaker - UTS Open Day (Aug 2017)

• Guest Presenter - School of Software Professional Advisory Board (Jul 2017)

• Panelist - CeBIT 2017 Strategic Panel (May 2017)

• IEEE Trans. on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (TCIAIG)

• User Modelling and User-Adaptive Interactions (UMUAI) (Springer)

• Entertainment Computing (Elsevier)

• ACM Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

• ACM Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Play (CHI-Play)

• IEEE Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)

• AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)

• Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)

• Interactive Entertainment (IE)

• Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI)