Innopolis University entered the top 100 world universities of game researchers

The Institutions Active in Technical Games Research ranking was compiled by a professor of computer science at American University in

Washington Mark Nelson. He counted the activity of 2,140 games researchers from 706 universities around the world. Innopolis University took 87th place and became the only Russian university on the list.

Laboratory is currently working at an IT universityartificial intelligence in game development led by Canadian scientist Joseph Brown. Together with researchers Khamna Aslam and Munir Makhmutov, he works on the topic of player preferences: how users perceive game objects and how they determine the rules of the game without reading manuals and rules. In 2020, the laboratory plans to release a book on game testing and theory of possibilities.

To be on this list is a big achievement whenIT University’s capabilities. Let me explain: the first places in the ranking were occupied by large universities, in which dozens of researchers are involved in the development, design and study of games. In our team, only three people work, so this assessment is pride. Of course, some students participate in some studies, and this rating also confirms the high quality of training IT specialists at our university.

Head of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence in Game Development at Innopolis University Joseph Brown         

The first place in the ranking was taken by CaliforniaUniversity of Santa Cruz, the second is the University of Alberta in Canada, and the third is Queen Mary University of London. Also on the list are North Carolina State University, New York University, researchers from Google, Maastricht University from the Netherlands, University of Malta, British University of York and Georgia Institute of Technology.