Dr. Nathan Sturtevant

Biography

Nathan Sturtevant is a professor at the University of Alberta and an Amii Fellow; he also holds a Canada CIFAR chair. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UCLA and his BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. His research broadly involves heuristic combinatorial search problems and theoretical applied approaches. He specializes in work for both single and multiple agents, focusing on machine learning, heuristic learning, bidirectional search, cooperative search, adversarial search, large-scale parallel search, game design, and abstraction refinement. His commitment to the field is evidenced by his implementation of research into commercial video games and his continued collaboration with practitioners in the games industry. Nathan is involved in teaching and mentoring students from diverse academic backgrounds, guiding them through the creative processes in game design and development. He emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of game creation, blending insights from the sciences and arts to prepare students for real-world applications in the interactive entertainment industry.

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