Rogelio Cardona-rivera
Assistant Professor And Founding Faculty, Division Of Games at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolRogelio Cardona-Rivera is an assistant professor and founding faculty member of the Division of Games at the University of Utah, bringing 13 years of experience at the intersection of computational psychology, interactive narrative, and game design. He researches how to computationally model human narrative intelligence to enable systems where users take on dramatic roles and shape unfolding stories. His work synthesizes design, development, and experimental evaluation of intelligent artifacts that reveal how players perceive narrative affordances in virtual environments. Previously he held research positions at NC State, Disney Research, Sandia National Laboratories, and internships at Apple and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, blending industry-grade prototyping with rigorous academic inquiry. Based in Salt Lake City and originally from Puerto Rico, he combines deep technical training (PhD in Computer Science) with a rare focus on how narrative cognition can be operationalized in interactive systems. Beyond publications, his research uniquely leverages large-scale virtual environment studies to model real-world social dynamics through narrative lenses.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityB.Sc., Ingeniería de Computadoras, B.Sc., Ingeniería de Computadoras at Universidad de Puerto Rico
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
markdown9
ruby9
predicate9
static-site9
liquid9
site-generator9
jekyll9
calculus8
blog-engine8
meta8
static-site-generator7
partial7
abstraction6
java5
sandbox5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sweetcarolinagames/BitBot
Nov 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:342 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 2 years 7 months
recardona/Java-FOPL
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:225 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
predicatecalculusmetalinguisticjava
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