Researchers and Developers

Project Spectrum

National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, India

• Current
  • Matthew Belmonte (autism family member and researcher)

Cornell University

Department of Human Development and Game Design Initiative at Cornell

• Current
  • Jeff Valla (postgraduate, autistic dimensional traits and cognitive sex differences)
  • Yue Yu (postgraduate, change detection in social and non-social percepts)
  • Barbara Ganzel (visiting researcher)
• Alumni
  • August Zinsser (lead, game design & development, recruited to Loose Cannon Studios, now at Zynga)
  • Darshana Tuladhar (postgraduate, auditory and language processing, now an NSF Graduate Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh)
  • Keith Yoder (research assistant, EEG analysis, now a student at the University of Chicago Division of Social Sciences)
  • Grace Chen (undergraduate, joint attention and stereotypies during communicative pointing, now a research assistant at the Yale Child Study Center)
  • Jeff Maendel (undergraduate, gaze and face perception, now a student at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine)
  • Allie Keller (undergraduate, anxiety and deep pressure, now a research assistant at Weill Cornell Medical College)
  • Laura Lyman (undergraduate, now a student at SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine)
  • Tony Sidari (undergraduate, now a student at SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine)
  • Jordan Perlman (undergraduate)
  • Stephanie Wong (undergraduate)
  • Kristen Knodel (undergraduate)
  • Ayo Ositelu (Biomedical M.Eng. student)
  • Kai Chen (Biomedical M.Eng. student)

Rochester Institute of Technology

Game Design and Development

• Current
  • Dave Schwartz (assistant professor)
• Alumni
  • Karl Orosz (undergraduate game developer, now at Microsoft)
  • Brian Chesbrough (undergraduate game developer, now at Microsoft)
  • Adam Nabinger (undergraduate game developer)
  • Mike DeMauro (undergraduate game developer)
  • Brad Blankenship (undergraduate game developer)
  • Brian Murphy (undergraduate game developer)
  • Mike Dapiran (undergraduate game developer)
  • Brendan Bond (art director, now at Rearden Commerce)
  • Bob Larivee (undergraduate, game design and development)
  • Phil Levinson (undergraduate, game design and development)
  • Will Wood (undergraduate, game design and development)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Department of Neurology: Treatment Research and Neuroscience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

• Martha Herbert (Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School)
• Tal Kenet (Instructor, Harvard Medical School, study of motion perception)