Professor Dr. Hamza Bashandy

Biography

Hamza Bashandy is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Technology at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Liège, Belgium, which was funded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). In 2021, he received the Civil Society Scholar Award from the Open Society Foundation to pursue a research-creation fellowship at the Technoculture, Art & Games (TAG) Research Centre at Concordia University. His research sits at the intersection of urban issues and playful simulations, particularly examining the implications of playful interventions in computer simulations within participatory design and social movements. Ongoing research engages the datafication of crowd behavior, investigating the impact of implementing agent-based modeling and crowd simulation techniques on the behavior of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in video games, especially in digital environments depicting political protests.

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