Dr. Adriana de Souza e Silva
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Director, Mobile Gaming Lab

Research Interests:

• New media
• Mobile interfaces
• Hybrid reality games
• Multi-user environments

Home Page: http://www.souzaesilva.com
E-mail: souzaesilva [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Faculty member of Science, Technology, and Society Program
• Former senior researcher at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
• Former visiting scholar at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts

Research interests:

• Communication across the curriculum
• Oral communication genres in technical classrooms
• Instructional communication
• Communication in the disciplines

E-mail: deanna_dannels [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Richard Felder Award for Outstanding Service in Support of Teaching and Learning, NC State (2002)
• Co-PI: "Establishing New Multidisciplinary Curricular Paradigms: Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering" ($500,000 received NSF; 9/2000-5/2003)
• Guest Editor, Communication Education, 54 (1) "Oral Communication Genres in Disciplinary Discourse Communities: Communication Across the Curriculum and in the Disciplines" (special issue)

Dr. Michael Devetsikiotis
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Network Performance Research Group
ECE Coordinator, MS in Computer Networking

Research Interests:

• High-speed network modeling
• Performance evaluation and efficient simulation
• Optimization techniques applied to the analysis and design of communication systems

Home Page: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~mdevets/
E-mail: mdevets [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Adjunct Research Professor in the SCE Department, Carleton University
• Former Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling
• Area Editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
• On the Editorial Board of Journal of Internet Engineering, the IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials and the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling
• 2008-2009 IEEE/Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer

Patrick FitzGerald
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design
Director, College of Design Advanced Media Lab
Lead Professor,  Animation and New Media Graduate Program at the College of Design

Research Interests:

• Multimedia research and production (from experimental digital video for installation to interactive 3D animation for PDA devices)

Home Page: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~pfitz
E-mail: pfitz [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• MFA: Cranbrook Academy of Art
• Received national and international awards for his digital illustrations.
• In 1999, received a North Carolina Fellowship for the Visual Arts.
• Exhibited installations with design teams in the North Carolina Museum of Art (1998; IDM), The Witherspoon Museum (2000; IDM), The Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada (2003, Erroll Willett), The Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada (2003, Elaine Whitaker). In 2005, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design exhibited an interactive installation “Consumer Culture Garden” produced by the EAT Collaborative (FitzGerald, FitzGerald, Milsaps, Robertson, Raymond).
• Served as an instructor, artist and manager at the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine

Research interests:

• Media Studies (visual communication, gender, new technologies); rhetorics of immortality in technology advertising and pop culture

Home Page: http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/communication/
www/faculty/faculty_profiles/stein/index.html
E-mail: sarah_stein [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Numerous film credits and awards
• Coolidge scholar in residence (NYC)
• Frye Institute Fellow (Atlanta)
• Founder of NCSU Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable

Research interests:

• Technology studies
• Mobile networking
• Computer-mediated cooperative work
• Information and text design

Home Page: www4.ncsu.edu/~jswarts
E-mail: Jason_Swarts [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Faculty member in Science, Technology, and Society Program
• Nell Ann Pickett Award (2007) and National Council of Teachers of English Award (2004) for best article on theory in Technical Communication

Dr. R. Michael Young
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director, Liquid Narrative Group
Co-Director, Center for Digital Entertainment

Research Interests:

• Artificial intelligence
• Planning algorithms
• Discourse generation and computational models of interactive narrative

Home Page: http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/Home.html
E-mail: young [at] csc [dot] ncsu [dot] edu

Other:

• Director, North Carolina Serious Games Initiative
• Editor in Chief, Journal of Game Development