Luke Dicken
Advisor at LuDic AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLuke Dicken is an AI-for-games leader and advisor with eight years of industry experience and a PhD focused on AI in games, currently advising VC and accelerator teams while founding LuDic AI to consult on game-adjacent AI. He has led AI strategy and applied teams at Zynga and Take-Two, shipped a commercially released game (Spell Forest) as Game Director, and holds multiple patents in automated content generation and player modeling. Luke combines deep academic training in automated planning and bioinformatics with hands-on product delivery, translating research into production-ready generative and procedural systems. Known for building cross-functional AI organisations and communicating complex technical risk to executives, he also volunteers extensively in the games community, having scaled the IGDA Foundation and mentored emerging talent worldwide. An early "Creatures" fan, he still frames technical creativity around player-centric experiences and practical ethical engagement with modern AI.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Bio-Informatics, MSc, Bio-Informatics at The University of EdinburghPhD, Artificial Intelligence for Games, PhD, Artificial Intelligence for Games at University of Strathclyde
French, Spanish, German
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Github contributions (5)
Luke-DJ/Unreal-AI-Vehicles-Project
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 3 days
Luke-DJ/MyFirstRepo
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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