Dr. Yusuf Pisan is a teaching professor in the Department of Computing & Software Systems at the University of Washington Bothell. Previously he has worked at University of Technology, Sydney, and has been a visiting professor at Harvey Mudd College, University of Southern California, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). His research interests include enabling technologies for computer games, the design of virtual environments that support collaborative work, and computer science education. He founded the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment conference series and helped foster the Australian games community. His list of publications can be found at Google Scholar. Pisan has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University. Before moving to Seattle in 2017, he lived in the Chicago area for 10 years and Sydney for 20 years.