
Director / ii Labs; Director / NUS Games Lab; Asst. Prof. / National University of Singapore; Owner / Kingdom Crafting
Singapore

Director / ii Labs; Director / NUS Games Lab; Asst. Prof. / National University of Singapore; Owner / Kingdom Crafting
Singapore
Alexander Nareyek directs the interactive intelligence Labs (ii Labs) and the multi-disciplinary Games Lab at the National University of Singapore, where he also holds an assistant professorship, and is the owner of the media company Kingdom Crafting Pte. Ltd.
He received his diploma and Ph.D. from the TU Berlin/Germany, held positions at GMD-FIRST/Germany, Carnegie Mellon University/USA, and the Cork Constraint Computation Centre/Ireland, and served as CEO and CTO for Digital Drama Studios/Czech Republic.
He is one of the leading figures in the field of game AI and serves on numerous academic and industrial committees. For the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), he is responsible for matters regarding artificial intelligence, and serves as chairperson of the IGDA's Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee.
Artificial Intelligence for Gaming and Digital Entertainment
(Computer Games industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 6 months)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
January 2004 — September 2004 (9 months)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
January 2002 — December 2003 (2 years)
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 3 months)
PhD , Artificial Intelligence , 1997 — 2000
Dissertation title: “Constraint-Based Agents - An Architecture for Constraint-Based Modeling and Local-Search-Based Reasoning for Planning and Scheduling in Open and Dynamic Worlds"
Master , Computer Science , 1991 — 1996
International Game Developers Association (IGDA), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee (AIISC)