Our Team

left to right – Yan Jin, Alex Yue Hu, Jack Koo, Ken Xuyan Ke, Tim Rosko, Lisa Elkin, Janet Yu-Jung Lin.

 

 

Emily Treat – Client

Working as a VP of Production Services, Emily is extending her expertise to oversee social impact game projects at the Games for Change Lab. Drawing from her designer-producer background, she works closely with impact partners, designers, developers, and other team members to produce and advise on high-quality games that meet the standards and mission of Games for Change.

 

Asi Burak

Asi Burak is an award-winning game creator, tech executive, and social entrepreneur. As the President of Games for Change (G4C) and the Executive Producer of the Half the Sky Movement games, he orchestrated partnerships with Zynga, Frima Studio, some of the world’s leading NGOs, and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. As of August 2013, the Facebook game has reached 1 million registered players and raised $410,000 in sponsored and individual contributions.

 

Brenda Bakker Harger – Advisor

Brenda Bakker Harger is a theatre director (MFA Carnegie Mellon University), improviser, and professor of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center where she teaches improvisational acting and leads diverse interdisciplinary projects.

 

Ralph Vituccio – Advisor

Ralph Vituccio is the Director of Media Development in Communications Design and an Instructor in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon. He has developed, written, and produced numerous films, videos, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, web sites, and multimedia projects for Carnegie Mellon as well as many corporate and commercial clients. He is also an adjunct faculty at Pittsburgh Filmmakers where he teaches film and video production.

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Janet Yu-Jung Lin – Producer

Janet Lin is a co-producer on team Ursa. She did her undergraduate degree in Computer Science in Taiwan. Now she is pursuing a masters degree at the Entertainment Technology Center where she is honing her interdisciplinary communication abilities, learning how to efficiently work with others to achieve common goals, and improving her skills in production and leadership. Her dream is to become a producer in the Entertainment Technology industry after graduation.

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Lisa Elkin – Producer

Lisa Elkin is a producer and mathematician from Ottawa, Canada. She obtained a Bachelors of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo while dabbling in theater production in her time off. She is currently a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. She is a producer on the team creating Feed, a massive outdoor game made exclusively for Games for Change by students at the Entertainment Technology Center. She thinks games are a phenomenal medium for impact and is excited to be working on a project for Games for Change.

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Yan Jin – Game Design

Yan Jin worked as a programmer at NVIDIA and The9 City for three years. Now he is studying at the ETC to learn game design skills. He’d like to be a game designer.

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Alex Yue Hu – Programmer

Alex Hu studied computer science during his undergraduate degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He came to Entertainment Technology Center because of his deep love of games. He is a programmer on Team Ursa and enjoys working with his amazing teammates to make games for change . Upon graduating from ETC, he hopes to be a game designer or a game programmer.

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Ken Xuyan Ke – Programmer

Xuyan (Ken) Ke is currently a student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. He is a programmer on Team Ursa and is particularly interested in educational games and social games.

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Jack Koo – Art

Jack Koo graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts. During Jack’s BFA, he discovered his passion for programming through his interest in procedurally generated art in computer games. Jack’s interests in both art and programming clarified that the benchmark in game aesthetics is technology. Jack is now attending Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center where he is working with game development teams and studying computer graphics. Jack wishes to become a Technical Artist so that he may assist artists in bypassing technological benchmarks.

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Tim Rosko – Sound Designer

Tim Rosko is a composer and sound designer from Birmingham, AL.  He has an undergraduate degree in Music Composition from Belmont University in Nashville, TN.  At the Entertainment Technology Center, Tim has been focusing on sound design, music composition, and voice acting.