Tom Blount
Teaching Fellow at University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Blount is a post-doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton with 13 years of experience at the intersection of game design, human-data interaction, narrative systems, gamification, crowdsourcing, and social argumentation. He combines rigorous academic research (PhD in Computer Science) with practical teaching and project work within the Web and Internet Science group, translating complex interdisciplinary ideas into engaging curricula and experiments. Outside academia he actively explores game development, boardgames, creative writing, and producing Let's Play videos, reflecting a hands-on maker approach to studying play and narrative. Known for bridging theory and practice, he brings a creative, player-centered perspective to research that often yields novel methods for engaging people with data and argumentative systems.
13 years of coding experience
Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (10)
trainer10
clientside9
spectrum9
zeus9
deep-learning8
dac8
signal8
tensorflow8
eden4
project-management1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Landric/Crows-Zeus-Additions
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024
Some misc functions we wanted as zeus clientside
Contributions:64 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years 1 month
misc-functionsclientsidemiscwantedzeus
Landric/CYOA-Demo
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 13 days
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