Michael Gardone
Graduate Research Assistant
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gardone is a computational narratologist and Ph.D. student in computational psychology and human-centered AI at the University of Utah with nine years of experience building interactive systems, procedural content, and goal reasoning for games and research. As a graduate research assistant he develops narrative generation, long-term goal autonomy, and planning systems, while also teaching computer graphics and introductory programming—bridging cutting-edge AI research with practical game-engine implementations in Unity, HLSL, C#, C++, and Java. He led engineering on an indie title, managing releases, version control, and cross-team collaboration, and has industry experience shipping tools and backend features from internships to production. Comfortable moving between pedagogy, research, and production, Michael combines human-centered thinking with a game developer’s craft, often exploring how narrative structure can drive autonomous agent behavior.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, Computer Science, Senior, International Baccalaureate Diploma, Computer Science, Senior at Downingtown Stem Academy
Github Skills (3)
capstone5
3d-engine1
unity3d1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelGardone/ballad-of-the-masked-bandits
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Ballad of the Masked Bandits, EAE Capstone game
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 117 pushes in 4 months
capstonemaskedgamebandits
MichaelGardone/Harass-GM
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 99 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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