Faculty
Mark Claypool
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, B24b
Phone: +1-508-831-5409
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
claypool@wpi.edu
Website
Mark Claypool
- Director of Interactive Media & Game Development
- Professor, Computer Science
Mark Claypool has been a professor at WPI since 1997. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and written a book on network games. His research interests include multimedia networking, congestion control, and network games. Read more...
Josh Pablo Rosenstock
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 208
Phone: +1-508-831-5584
jrosen@wpi.edu
Website
Josh Pablo Rosenstock
- Associate Director of Interactive Media & Game Development
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
In 2005, Josh joined the faculty of WPI as one of the first hires in the Interactive Media and Game Development program and as the first studio art professor in WPI's history! He has greatly enjoyed helping the IMGD program grow and mature. Read more...
Emmanuel O. Agu
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, 139
Phone: +1-508-831-5568
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
emmanuel@wpi.edu
Website
Emmanuel O. Agu
- Associate Professor, Computer Science
His research interests include computer graphics, mobile computing, wireless networks and the use of smartphones as a platform to deliver better healthcare. Read more...
Frederick W. Bianchi
Contact Information:
Alden Memorial, 205
Phone: +1-508-831-5053
bianchi@wpi.edu
Frederick W. Bianchi
- Professor, Humanities & Arts
As the director of computer music research, Professor Frederick Bianchi works with students from all disciplines. His particular focus is Virtual Orchestra technology and multichannel sound design. Read more...
Jennifer deWinter
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 15
Phone: +1-508-831-6679
jdewinter@wpi.edu
Jennifer deWinter
- Co-Director, Professional Writing
- Assistant Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor deWinter particularly respects WPI’s motto, "Theory and Practice." She believes projects provide a concrete application to abstract knowledge, but strong leaders ponder projects abstractly and connect ideas between disciplines and settings. Read more...
Joseph Farbrook
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 207
Phone: +1-508-831-5773
farbrook@wpi.edu
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Joseph Farbrook
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
Professor Farbrook came to WPI in 2006. He especially enjoys teaching at WPI because of the exciting and innovative approaches that students from many different disciplines take when tackling an artistic problem or concept. Read more...
David Finkel
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, B23
Phone: +1-508-831-5416
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
dfinkel@wpi.edu
Website
David Finkel
- Professor, Computer Science
Professor Finkel's research interests revolve around issues of computer system performance evaluation. His research projects have studied the performance of operating systems, computer networks, and distributed computer systems. Read more...
Jeffrey Forgeng
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 08
Phone: +1-508-831-5442
jforgeng@wpi.edu
Jeffrey Forgeng
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Interactive Media & Game Development
My position was created as a cross-appointed post: teaching at WPI while serving as curator at the Higgins Armory Museum. The synergies between the two sides are amazing! Most of my teaching is in IQP projects, bringing student teams to the museum to research some aspect of the museum's collection, and then devising some innovative way to share it with the public. Read more...
Neil T. Heffernan
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, 237
Phone: +1-508-831-5569
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
nth@wpi.edu
Website
Neil T. Heffernan
- Co-Director Learning Sciences & Technologies
- Associate Professor, Computer Science
Neil Heffernan enjoys doing educational data mining and running the ASSISTments system, which is a web service that helps schools teach better. His goal is to give ASSISTments to millions across the US and internationally as a free service of WPI. Read more...
Robert W. Lindeman
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, B24a
Phone: +1-508-831-6712
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
gogo@wpi.edu
Website
Robert W. Lindeman
- Associate Professor, Computer Science
The vast majority of work that has been done in the field of virtual reality has addressed the visual and auditory senses. We are interested in the remaining senses, haptic, olfactory, and gustatory, in addition to these. Read more...
Brian Moriarty
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 211
Phone: +1-508-831-5631
bmoriarty@wpi.edu
Website
Brian Moriarty
- Professor of Practice, Interactive Media & Game Development
I teach game design using playful tools and techniques that thoroughly delight students while making them work harder than they ever imagined. Read more...
George D. J. Phillies
Contact Information:
Olin Hall, 130
Phone: +1-508-831-5334
phillies@wpi.edu
Website
George D. J. Phillies
- Professor, Physics
In his quarter-century at WPI, Professor Phillies has dedicated most of his pedagogical efforts to lecturing in freshman physics, notably mechanics and harmonic oscillations, in addition to several other courses for which he’s written the texts. Read more...
Charles Rich
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, B25b
Phone: +1-508-831-5945
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
rich@wpi.edu
Website
Charles Rich
- Professor, Computer Science
What gets me out of bed in the morning is the hope that I will one day interact with a true artificial intelligence and the belief that part of what I will do today contributes to that goal; I am interested in all kinds of applications of AI. Read more...
John Sanbonmatsu
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 23
Phone: +1-508-831-5226
js@wpi.edu
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John Sanbonmatsu
- Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts
John Sanbonmatsu is interested in critical social theory and political philosophy. He would love to talk about philosophy and the meaning of life with anyone who wants to give him a call or sit down with him over coffee. Read more...
Britton Robert Snyder
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 210
Phone: +1-508-831-5806
bsnyder@wpi.edu
Website
Britton Robert Snyder
- Professor of Practice, Interactive Media & Game Development
The part I like most about teaching is constantly exploring and sharing new discoveries. In particular, I am fascinated by digital sculpting, character design, and creating believable worlds in a video game context. I believe video games are an incredible form of art, which I look forward to pushing further with my students in the coming years. Read more...
Ralph Paul Hendrik Sutter
Contact Information:
Salisbury Laboratories, 206
Phone: +1-508-831-6585
rsutter@wpi.edu
Ralph Paul Hendrik Sutter
- Instructor/Lecturer, Interactive Media & Game Development
Ralph Sutter is a character artist and animator, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Animation from the New England Institute of Art, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and with "Highest Honors" in the department. Read more...
Matthew Oliver Ward
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories, 231
Phone: +1-508-831-5671
Fax: +1-508-831-5776
matt@wpi.edu
Website
Matthew Oliver Ward
- Professor, Computer Science
I do research and teach in an area loosely termed “Image Sciences,” which includes topics such as computer graphics, animation, image processing, computer vision, and data and information visualization - a topic I have researched for the past 20 years. Read more...
Keith Zizza
Contact Information:
Fuller Laboratories
Phone: +1-508-831-4928
kzizza@wpi.edu
Keith Zizza
- Professor of Practice, Interactive Media & Game Development
I'm interested in optimizing the technical and aesthetic qualities of a game's soundscape (the interactive melting pot of music, sound effects, and dialogue), helping to suspend the player's disbelief and make game play even more immersive and engaging. Read more...
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