Summary
Rilla Khaled is an Associate Professor and Director of Concordia University’s Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre, with nine years of experience in academic leadership and a PhD in Computer Science. Her research bridges game design, learning, and culture—specializing in reflective and persuasive games, procedural content generation, and third-wave HCI methods. She champions experimental, “deep” play experiences that subvert conventional design norms and foreground ambiguous, reflective subject matter to blend learning and artful gameplay. With prior faculty appointments across Europe and Malta and early industry experience in web and database development, she combines rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodologies with hands-on design practice. Notably, her work advances participatory and cross-cultural approaches to serious games, making design a site for critical inquiry as well as pedagogy.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Copenhagen Business School
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, French, Bangla