IEEE CoG 2026

Program Committee

Nominated to the CoG 2026 Best Reviewer Award

[Winner] Loutfouz Zaman (Ontario Tech University, Game Analytics Track)
Second Runner Up Miguel Belbute (Instituto Superior Tecnico - University of Lisbon, Serious Games)
First Runner Up Alexander Dockhorn (University of Southern Denmark, AI for Game Playing)
Laura Helsby (University of York, Game HCI)
Isaac Karth (UC Santa Cruz, Procedural Content Generation)
Sam Shields (UC Santa Cruz, Game Design and Technology)
Anita Vrins (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Special Session on Games for Health and Wellbeing)

Honourable Mentions

Branden Ingram (University of Witwatersrand) (Game Analytics Track)
Patricia Alves (Polytechnic of Porto) (Serious Games)
Marco Pleines (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences) (AI for Game Playing)
Paul Cairns (University of York) and Casper Harteveld (Northeastern University) (Game HCI)
Sasha Azad (North Carolina State University), Matthew Guzdial (University of Alberta) and Phil Lopes (Universidade Lusófona) (Procedural Content Generation)
Kyle Mitchell (University of California, Davis) and Josef Spjut (NVIDIA) (Game Design and Technology)
Ethel Pruss (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Bram Heijligers (Tilburg University) (Special Session on Games for Health and Wellbeing)

Program Committee

Game Analytics

Track Chairs: Marco Scirea (University of Southern Denmark) and Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom (Tilburg University)

PC:

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat (University of York)
Alberto Belmonte Hernández (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Alvaro Uribe Quevedo (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
Andrea Mocci (Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland)
Anna Sapienza (Technical University of Denmark)
Aurélien Chambon (Pullup Entertainment, Paris, France)
Branden Ingram (University of Witwatersrand)
Byung-Chull Bae (Hongik University)
Carlo A. Furia (USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Carlos Santos (Breda University)
Christos Fidas (University of Patras)
Claudio Di Sipio (Johannes Kepler University)
Cor-Paul Bezemer (University of Alberta)
Craig G. Anderson (University Utah)
David Melhart (Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta)
Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology)
Didier Gohourou (Ritsumeikan University)
Fanfan Chen (National Taipei University of Business)
Fiona Shyne (Northeastern University)
Hamna Aslam (University of Lincoln)
Huy Kang Kim (Korea University)
Ian Horswill (Northwestern University)
Jakob Droste (Leibniz University Hannover)
Johannes Pfau (Utretch University)
Jose Barambones (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Koji Mikami (Tokyo University of Technology)
Kyana van Eijndhoven (Tilburg University)
Leonie Kallabis (University of Applied Sciences Köln)
Loutfouz Zaman (Ontario Tech University)
Maria Julia Vieira da Cunha (Universidade de Aveiro)
Maël Addoum (ISART Digital Paris)
Mehdi Kaytoue (INSA Lyon, LIRIS/CNRS)
Mehmet Kosa (Marshall University)
Michal Klincewicz (Tilburg University)
Nicolas Grelier (Pullup Entertainment, Paris, France)
Patrick Dickinson (University of Lincoln)
Pieter Spronck (Tilburg University)
Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera (University of Utah)
Sasha Soraine (University of Melbourne)
Stefano Lambiase (Aalborg University of Copenhangen)
Swen Gaudl (Goteborgs Universitet)
Wilco Boode (Breda University)

Serious Games

Track Chairs: Antonio Miguel Mora García (Universidad de Granada) and Federico Peinado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

PC:

Adrian Dominguez Diaz (Universidad de Alcalá)
Baltasar Fernandez Manjon (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Belma Ramic-Brkic (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology)
Bradford Mott (North Carolina State University)
Buades Rubio Jose Maria (Universitat Illes Balears)
Carina Soledad González-González (Universidad de La Laguna)
Carlos Astengo (Tecnologico de Monterrey)
Cesar Alberto Collazos Ordoñez (University of Cauca)
Christian Eichhorn (Technical University of Munich)
David Plecher (Technical University of Munich)
Eduard Leonardo Sierra Ballen (Universidad Militar Nueva Granada)
Elisabeth Huis in 't Veld (Tilburg University)
Fotis Liarokapis (CYENS - Centre of Excellence)
Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela (University of Granada)
Israel Mendonca (Kumamoto University)
Jesús Gallardo Casero (University of Zaragoza)
Juan Antonio Caballero (Universidad de Cadiz)
Juan Manuel Dodero (Universidad de Cadiz)
Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn (Bangkok University)
Laura Anna Ripamonti (University of Milan)
Luis Paulo Reis (University of Porto/LIACC)
Manuel Palomo (Universidad de Cadiz)
Maria Chiu (Northeastern University)
Maria Francesca Roig Maimó (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Mario Andres Bruno Melendez (Universidad de Playa Ancha)
Micaela Fonseca (Universidad Lusofona)
Michela Mortara (CNR imati Ge)
Miguel Belbute (Instituto Superior Tecnico - University of Lisbon)
Patricia Paderewski Rodriguez (University of Granada)
Patricia Alves (ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto)
Ramón Mas Sansó (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Raquel Lacuesta Gilaberte (University of Zaragoza)
Rui Prada (Tecnico ULisboa)
Seth Cooper (Northeastern University)
Shiguang Ni (Tsinghua University)
Silvana Vanesa Aciar (University of San Juan)
Stefan Gobel (TU Darmstadt)
Steven Sutherland (Northeastern University)
Uttkarsh Narayan (Northeastern University)

AI for Game Playing

Track Chairs: Jacob Schrum (Southwestern University) and Daniela López de Luise (CI2S Lab)

PC:

Alexander Dockhorn (University of Southern Denmark, SDU)
Alexander Farhang (Caltech)
Anssi Kanervisto (Meta)
Arash Moradi Karkaj (Freelance)
Aske Plaat (Leiden University)
Britton Horn (Trinity University)
Byunghwa Yoo (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST))
Chengpeng Hu (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Christopher Archibald (Brigham Young University)
Daan Apeldoorn (IMBEI, University Medical Center Mainz & IU International University of Applied Sciences)
Daisaku Yokoyama (Meiji University)
Damien Anderson (University of Strathclyde)
Daniel Hernandez (University of York)
David Thue (Carleton University)
Dennis Soemers (Maastricht University)
Dien Nguyen (Queen Mary University of London)
Dominik Jeurissen (Queen Mary University of London)
Edirlei Soares de Lima (Breda University of Applied Sciences)
Federico Malato (University of Eastern Finland)
Fernando De Mesentier Silva (Game Innovation Lab - New York University)
Florian Rupp (University of Applied Sciences Mannheim)
Florian Richoux (AIST)
Florian Fuchs (SEED EA)
Girolamo Macaluso (University of Florence)
Gustavo Juarez (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán)
Hendrik Baier (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Hyunsoo Park (Sejong University)
I-Chen Wu (National Chiao Tung University)
Ibrahim Khan (Ritsumeikan University)
In-Chang Baek (GIST)
Isaac Stone (University of Alberta)
Jaeyoung Moon (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea)
Jakub Kowalski (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wroclaw)
James Goodman (Queen Mary University of London)
Josh Jung (University of Waterloo)
Kiminori Matsuzaki (Kochi University of Technology)
Lorena Beatriz Martínez Elizalde (Tecnologico de Monterrey)
Lukas Schäfer (Microsoft Research)
Luke Mathieson (University of Technology Sydney)
Maarten Schadd (TNO)
Man-Je Kim (Chonnam National University)
Manuel Eberhardinger (Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart)
Marco Pleines (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences)
Mark Nelson (American University)
Marko Tot (Queen Mary University of London)
Matthew Stephenson (Flinders University)
Matthias Muller-Brockhausen (Leiden University)
Maxim Mozgovoy (University of Aizu)
Michael Fairbank (University of Essex)
Michael Green (New York University)
Mike Preuss (Leiden University)
Nuno Fachada (Lusofona University, COPELABS)
Oleg Smirnov (King)
Pablo Gutierrez Sanchez (PadaOne Games)
Qingquan Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Radoslaw Miernik (University of Wroclaw)
Raul Montoliu (Dept. Ingenieria y Ciencia de los Computadores. Universidad Jaume I)
Rie Yamaguchi Shigetomi (The University of Tokyo)
Robert Gray (Drexel University)
Rodrigo de Moura Canaan (New York University)
Ruck Thawonmas (Ritsumeikan University)
Ruizhe Yu Xia (Queen Mary University of London)
Sahar Asadi (King)
Shi-Jim Yen (National Dong Hwa University)
Siddharth Mysore (Boston University)
Simon Lucas (Queen Mary University, London)
Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University)
Sushil Louis (University of Nevada, Reno)
Tae Jong Choi (Chonnam National University)
Ti-Rong Wu (Academia Sinica)
Tiago Machado (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, New York University)
Timo Bertram (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Tomoyuki Kaneko (The University of Tokyo)
Vadim Bulitko (University of Alberta)
Vladimir M. Petrovic (Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade)
Wonsang You (Gwangju institute of science and technology)
Yasuhiro Tajima (Okayama Prefectural University)
Younes Rabii (Queen Mary University of London)
Zuozhi Yang (Drexel University)

Game HCI

Track Chairs: Alena Denisova (University of York) and Gunter Wallner (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

PC:

Anastasios Theodoropoulos (University of the Peloponnese, Department of Performing and Digital Arts)
Brent Harrison (University of Kentucky)
Casper Harteveld (Northeastern University)
Christos Mousas (Purdue University)
Dennis Paulino (INESC TEC and University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro)
Diogo Guimaraes (INESC TEC and University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro)
Enes Yigitbas (Paderborn University)
Fatima Althani (Queen Mary University of London)
Francesca Foffano (University of York)
Gabriela Villalobos-Zuniga (University of Lausanne)
Geneva Smith (University of Waterloo)
George Lepouras (University of Peloponnese)
Hugo Paredes (Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro)
Laura Helsby (University of York)
Letian Wang (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Melika Vafafar (Northeastern University London)
Michael Lankes (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)
Mirkka Forssell (Tampere University)
Nelson Zagalo (University of Aveiro)
Nemanja Rasajski (Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta)
Paul Cairns (University of York)
Phillip Brown (Tilburg University)
Roberto Gallotta (University of Malta)
Sai Siddartha Maram (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology)
Wei Wu (Northeastern University)
Wilson Sarmiento (Universidad Militar Nueva Granada)
Zachary Sin (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Procedural Content Generation

Track Chairs: M Charity (University of Richmond) and Alberto Alvarez (Malmo University)

PC:

Ahmed Khalifa (University of Malta)
Antonios Liapis (Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta)
Anurag Sarkar (University of Alberta)
Arturo Valdivia (Tactile Games)
Baek In-Chang (Sejong University, South Korea)
Carlos Martinho (Universidade de Lisboa)
Christoph Salge (Herthfordshire University)
Chu-Hsuan Hsueh (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Clark Verbrugge (McGill University)
Daniel Karavolos (University of Malta)
Daniele Gravina (University of Malta)
Daniele Loiacono (Politecnico di Milano)
Dipika Rajesh (Independent Researcher)
Gabriella Barros (Modl.ai)
Georgios N. Yannakakis (Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta)
Gorm Lai (Goldsmiths University)
In-Chang Baek (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Isaac Karth (Department of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz)
Jim Whitehead (Dept. of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Jose Font (Malmo University)
Julian Togelius (New York University)
Justus Robertson (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Krzysztof Walczak (Poznan University of Economics and Business)
Kyung-Joong Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Lucas N. Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Marvin Zammit (Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta)
Matthew Guzdial (University of Alberta)
Nicolas A. Barriga (Universidad de Talca)
Oliver Withington (Queen Mary University of London)
Phil Lopes (Universidade Lusofona)
Rafael Bidarra (Delft University of Technology)
Sasha Azad (North Carolina State University)
Simon Colton (Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London)
Timothy Merino (New York University)
Victoire Hervé (University of Hertfordshire)
Zehua Jiang (New York University)

Game Design and Technology

Track Chairs: Mike Cook (Kings College London) and Jeremy Gow (Queen Mary University of London)

PC:

Alireza Dehghanpour (University of Bremen)
Andrew McEachern (York University)
Antonio Coelho (University of Porto)
Antonio J. Fernandez Leiva (Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación. Universidad de Málaga)
Carlo Harvey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Claus Aranha (University of Tsukuba)
Daijin Yang (Northeastern University)
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath (Uppsala University)
Diego Tondorf (École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS))
Erica Kleinman (Northeastern University)
Fabio Petrillo (École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS))
Hector Fan (Northeastern University)
Henrik Engstrom (University of Skovde)
Josef Spjut (NVIDIA)
Joseph Walton-Rivers (Falmouth University)
Joshua Kritz (Queen Mary University of London)
Joshua McCoy (University of California, Davis)
Julian Geheeb (Sagewing Studio, Technische Universität München)
June Bhartia (Telecom Paris)
Kyle Mitchell (University of California, Davis)
Laurissa Tokarchuk (Queen Mary University of London)
Marcos Borges (University of Campinas)
Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, Inc)
Michael Saiger (University of Glasgow)
Mustafa Feyyaz Sonbudak (Northeastern University)
Nicholas Gibbins (University of Southampton)
Noah Wardrip-Fruin (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Paloma Bry (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)
Pedro A. Santos (Universidade de Lisboa)
Peter Xenopoulos (NVIDIA)
Robin Horst (RheinMain University of Applied Sciences)
Ryosuke Yamanishi (Kansai University)
Sam Shields (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Sara Cardinale (Queen Mary University of London)
Yannick Francillette (UQAC)

Special Session - Games for Health and Wellbeing

Track Chairs: Paris Mavromoustakos-Blom (Tilburg University) and Rafael Bidarra (Delft University of Technology)

PC:

Pieter Spronck (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Mehmet Kosa (Marshall University, USA)
Thomas Nikodelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Kyana van Eijndhoven (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Kamyab Ghorbanpour (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Julija Vaitonyte (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Vasileios Mylonas (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Fred Atilla (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Paula Magalhães (University of Minho, Portugal)
Gloria Mittmann (Karl Landsteiner University, Austria)
Barbara Göbl (University of Vienna, Austria)
Anita Vrins (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Bram Heijligers (Tilburg University)
Ethel Pruss (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Henriette Kohnen (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)

Special Session - Evaluating and Advancing Spatial Intelligence through Games

Track Chairs: Prashant Jayannavar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Alessandro Suglia (University of Edinburgh)

PC:

Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Marc-Alexandre Cote (Microsoft Research – Montreal)
Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
David Schlangen (University of Potsdam)
Manling Li (Northwestern University)
Parisa Kordjamshidi (Michigan State University)
Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg)
Nikolai Ilinykh (University of Gothenburg)
Vardhan Dongre (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Ruiyi Wang (University of California San Diego)
Sandro Pezzelle (University of Amsterdam)