I am Rogelio, a Puerto Rican Computer Engineering Student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Computer Science Ph.D. Student at North Carolina State University, Game Designer and Game Researcher.
I am advised by Dr. R. Michael Young in the Liquid Narrative Research Group. My thesis work is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, narratology and game design and focuses on creating a cognitive model of the player’s understanding of an unfolding story in an interactive narrative through the use of narrative affordances. In my spare time, I am active in the local game development community: I am Secretary of the Board of the Professional Chapter and President of the Student Chapter of the NC-Triangle IGDA. I have held internship positions at Sandia National Laboratories, Apple, The MIT/Lincoln Laboratory and Goldman Sachs. I’m also a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow and a GEM Fellow.
I am a fan of cinema, can quote Star Wars like a bible, and want to be cool when I grow up.
On Games, Narratives, Computation, and Cognition 