Program Committee

Nominated to the CoG 2026 Best Reviewer Award

• Loutfouz Zaman (Game Analytics Track)
• Miguel Belbute (Serious Games)
• Alexander Dockhorn (AI for Game Playing)
• Laura Helsby (Game HCI)
• Isaac Karth (Procedural Content Generation)
• Sam Shields (Game Design and Technology)
• Anita Vrins (Special Session on Games for Health and Wellbeing)

Honourable Mentions

• Branden Ingram (Game Analytics Track)
• Patricia Alves (Serious Games)
• Marco Pleines (AI for Game Playing)
• Paul Cairns and Casper Harteveld (Game HCI)
• Sasha Azad, Matthew Guzdial and Phil Lopes (Procedural Content Generation)
• Kyle Mitchell and Josef Spjut (Game Design and Technology)
• Athel Pruss and Bram Heijligers (Special Session on Games for Health and Wellbeing)

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Program Committee

Game Analytics

Track Chairs: Marco Scirea and Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom

PC:

• Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat
• Alberto Belmonte Hernández
• Andrea Mocci
• Anna Sapienza
• Branden Ingram
• Byung-Chull Bae
• Carlos Santos
• Christos Fidas
• Claudio Di Sipio
• Cor-Paul Bezemer
• Craig G. Anderson
• David Melhart
• Denis Helic
• Didier Gohourou
• Fanfan Chen
• Fiona Shyne
• Hamna Aslam
• Huy Kang Kim
• Ian Horswill
• Jakob Droste
• Johannes Pfau
• Jose Barambones
• Koji Mikami
• Kyana van Eijndhoven
• Leonie Kallabis
• Loutfouz Zaman
• Maël Addoum
• Maria Julia Vieira da Cunha
• Mehdi Kaytoue
• Mehmet Kosa
• Patrick Dickinson
• Pieter Spronck
• Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera
• Sasha Soraine
• Stefano Lambiase
• Swen Gaudl
• Wilco Boode

Serious Games

Track Chairs: Antonio Miguel Mora García and Federico Peinado

PC:

• Adrian Dominguez Diaz
• Baltasar Fernandez Manjon
• Belma Ramic-Brkic
• Bradford Mott
• Carina Gonzalez Gonzalez
• Carlos Astengo
• Cesar Alberto Collazos Ordoñez
• Christian Eichhorn
• David Plecher
• Eduard Leonardo Sierra Ballen
• Elisabeth Huis in 't Veld
• Fotis Liarokapis
• Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela
• Israel Mendonca
• Jesús Gallardo Casero
• José María Buades Rubio
• Juan Antonio Caballero
• Juan Manuel Dodero
• Luis Paulo Reis
• Manuel Palomo
• Maria Chiu
• Maria Francesca Roig Maimó
• Mario Andres Bruno Melendez
• Micaela Fonseca
• Michela Mortara
• Miguel Belbute
• Patricia Alves
• Patricia Paderewski Rodriguez
• Ramón Mas Sansó
• Raquel Lacuesta Gilaberte
• Ripamonti Laura Anna
• Rui Prada
• Seth Cooper
• Shiguang Ni
• Silvana Vanesa Aciar
• Sookhanaphibarn Kingkarn
• Stefan Gobel
• Steven Sutherland
• Uttkarsh Narayan

AI for Game Playing

Track Chairs: Jacob Schrum and Daniela López de Luise

PC:

• Alexander Dockhorn
• Alexander Farhang
• Anssi Kanervisto
• Arash Moradi Karkaj
• Aske Plaat
• Britton Horn
• Byunghwa Yoo
• Chengpeng Hu
• Christopher Archibald
• Daan Apeldoorn
• Daisaku Yokoyama
• Damien Anderson
• Daniel Hernandez
• David Thue
• Dennis Soemers
• Dien Nguyen
• Dominik Jeurissen
• Edirlei Soares de Lima
• Federico Malato
• Fernando De Mesentier Silva
• Florian Rupp
• Florian Richoux
• Florian Fuchs
• Girolamo Macaluso
• Gustavo Juarez
• Hendrik Baier
• Hyunsoo Park
• I-Chen Wu
• Ibrahim Khan
• In-Chang Baek
• Isaac Stone
• Jaeyoung Moon
• Jakub Kowalski
• James Goodman
• Josh Jung
• Kiminori Matsuzaki
• Linjie Xu
• Lorena Beatriz Martínez Elizalde
• Lukas Schäfer
• Luke Mathieson
• Maarten Schadd
• Man-Je Kim
• Manuel Eberhardinger
• Marco Pleines
• Mark Nelson
• Marko Tot
• Matthew Stephenson
• Matthias Muller-Brockhausen
• Maxim Mozgovoy
• Michael Green
• Michael Fairbank
• Mike Preuss
• Nuno Fachada
• Oleg Smirnov
• Pablo Gutierrez Sanchez
• Qingquan Zhang
• Radoslaw Miernik
• Raul Montoliu
• Rie Yamaguchi Shigetomi
• Robert Gray
• Rodrigo de Moura Canaan
• Ruck Thawonmas
• Ruizhe Yu Xia
• Sahar Asadi
• Siddharth Mysore
• Simon Lucas
• Sung-Bae Cho
• Sushil Louis
• Tae Jong Choi
• Ti-Rong Wu
• Tiago Machado
• Timo Bertram
• Tomoyuki Kaneko
• Vadim Bulitko
• Vladimir M. Petrovi?
• Wonsang You
• Yasuhiro Tajima
• Yen Shi-jim
• Younes Rabii
• Zuozhi Yang

Game HCI

Track Chairs: Alena Denisova and Gunter Wallner

PC:

• Anastasios Theodoropoulos
• Brent Harrison
• Casper Harteveld
• Christos Mousas
• Dennis Paulino
• Diogo Guimaraes
• Enes Yigitbas
• Fatima Althani
• Francesca Foffano
• Gabriela Villalobos-Zuniga
• Geneva Smith
• George Lepouras
• Hugo Paredes
• Laura Helsby
• Letian Wang
• Melika Vafafar
• Michael Lankes
• Mirkka Forssell
• Nelson Zagalo
• Nemanja Rasajski
• Paul Cairns
• Phillip Brown
• Roberto Gallotta
• Sai Siddartha Maram
• Wei Wu
• Wilson Sarmiento
• Zachary Sin

Procedural Content Generation

Track Chairs: M Charity and Alberto Alvarez

PC:

• Ahmed Khalifa
• Antonios Liapis
• Anurag Sarkar
• Arturo Valdivia
• Carlos Martinho
• Christoph Salge
• Chu-Hsuan Hsueh
• Clark Verbrugge
• Daniel Karavolos
• Daniele Gravina
• Daniele Loiacono
• Dipika Rajesh
• Gabriella Barros
• Georgios N. Yannakakis
• Gorm Lai
• In-Chang Baek
• Isaac Karth
• Jim Whitehead
• Jose Font
• Julian Togelius
• Justus Robertson
• Krzysztof Walczak
• Kyung-Joong Kim
• Lucas N. Ferreira
• Marvin Zammit
• Matthew Guzdial
• Nicolas A. Barriga
• Oliver Withington
• Phil Lopes
• Sasha Azad
• Simon Colton
• Timothy Merino
• Victoire Hervé
• Zehua Jiang

Game Design and Technology

Track Chairs: Mike Cook and Jeremy Gow

PC:

• Alireza Dehghanpour
• Andrew McEachern
• Antonio Coelho
• Antonio J. Fernandez Leiva
• BRY Paloma
• Carlo Harvey
• Claus Aranha
• Daijin Yang
• Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath
• Diego Tondorf
• Digdem Chong-Ming
• Erica Kleinman
• Fabio Petrillo
• Hector Fan
• Henrik Engstrom
• Johanna Pirker
• Josef Spjut
• Joseph Walton-Rivers
• Joshua Kritz
• Joshua McCoy
• Julian Geheeb
• June Barthia
• Kyle Mitchell
• Laurissa Tokarchuk
• Marcos Borges
• Mark Bernstein
• Michael Saiger
• Mustafa Feyyaz Sonbudak
• Nicholas Gibbins
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin
• Pablo Vilaboa
• Pedro A. Santos
• Peter Xenopoulos
• Ralf Doerner
• Robin Horst
• Rolf Piepenbrink
• Ryosuke Yamanishi
• Sam Shields
• Sara Cardinale
• Yannick Francillette

Special Session - Games for Health and Wellbeing

Track Chairs: Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom and Rafael Bidarra

PC:

• Pieter Spronck
• Mehmet Kosa
• Thomas Nikodelis
• Kyana van Eijndhoven
• Kamyab Ghorbanpour
• Julija Vaitonyte
• Vasileios Mylonas
• Fred Atilla
• Paula Magalhães
• Gloria Mittmann
• Barbara Göbl

Special Session - Evaluating and Advancing Spatial Intelligence through Games

Track Chairs: Prashant Jayannavar and Alessandro Suglia

PC:

• Julia Hockenmaier
• Marc-Alexandre Cote
• Raffaella Bernardi
• David Schlangen
• Manling Li
• Parisa Kordjamshidi
• Simon Dobnik
• Nikolai Ilinykh
• Vardhan Dongre
• Ruiyi Wang
• Sandro Pezzelle