Matthew Stephenson
Senior Lecturer at Flinders University
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolMatthew Stephenson is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University with nine years of experience bridging academic research and software development in AI, machine learning, and data science applied to games. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Australian National University and completed postdoctoral research at Universiteit Maastricht, combining rigorous research methods with practical implementation. His work focuses on advancing intelligent game systems, experimenting with ML techniques that improve both gameplay and automated analysis. Based in Adelaide, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to teaching and mentoring, supervising projects that translate novel algorithms into playable prototypes. Before academia he gained hands-on development experience in industry, which informs his pragmatic approach to research impact and reproducibility. Colleagues know him for turning complex theoretical ideas into accessible tools and classroom experiences that engage students and developers alike.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (11)
artificial-intelligence10
polygons7
science5
overlapping4
game-development4
xml3
rectangles3
fairness-ml2
polygon2
json2
ai1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Ludeme/Ludii
May 2021 - Dec 2022
The Ludii general game system, developed as part of the ERC-funded Digital Ludeme Project.
Contributions:491 commits, 1030 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
gamesgeneral-game-playingercartificial-intelligencegame-system
stepmat/ScienceBirds_sketch_generation
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Generates structures for Science Birds (Angry Birds) from sketches of rectilinear polygons
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
polygonsscienceangry-birdsrectilinearbirds
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