Pedro Acevedo
Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPedro Acevedo is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UNC Wilmington with 11 years of experience building interactive systems at the intersection of VR, educational technology, HCI, games, and AI-driven virtual agents. He completed a PhD at Purdue’s Virtual Reality Lab, where he worked as a Unity developer for the Envision Center creating immersive educational experiences for desktop and VR platforms. His background blends rigorous research—guided by work with Dr. Christos Mousas—and hands-on development across mobile (Flutter) and Unity, enabling a rare mix of pedagogy-aware design and production-grade implementation. Fluent in procedural content generation and AI-agent design, he brings both academic depth and practical delivery to curricular innovation and research-led applications. Based in Wilmington, NC, he also carries international academic roots from Colombia, reflecting a global perspective on tech-enabled learning.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology at Purdue UniversityMaestría, Systems Engineering, Maestría, Systems Engineering at Universidad del Norte
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Github Skills (156)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pedrotst/JVM
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:195 commits in 1 month
pedrotst/openHUD
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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