Prof(a). Esteban Clua

Esteban Clua is Full professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense and coordinator of UFF Medialab, CNPq researcher 1D, FAPERJ Scientist of the State of Rio. He is undergraduate in Computer Science by Universidade de São Paulo and has master and doctor degree by PUC-Rio.  His main research and development area are Digital Games, Virtual Reality, GPUs, Simulation and Applied AI for these fields He is one of the founders of SBGames (Brazilian Symposium of Games and Digital Entertainment) and was the president of Game Committee of the Brazilian Computer Society from 2010 through 2014. Today he is the general coordinator of the Technical Committee of Entertainment at the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) and honorable member of the board council of ABRAGAMES (Brazilian Association for Game Development). In 2015 he was nominated as NVidia CUDA Fellow. In 2023 he received the life achievement prize from the Brazilian Computer Society for the area of Digital Entertainment and Games in Brazil. In 2007 he received the prize from ABRAGAMES as the main contributor from the academia for the development of the game industry at Brazil.  Esteban is member of the program committee of most digital entertainment conferences.  Esteban belongs to the council of innovation of the Culture Secretary of the State of Rio, is member of the permanent commission of Rio Criativo and was Member of the permament board of innovation and technology at the Legislative board of Rio. In the last 5 years Esteban has participated in the incubation and creation of different companies related to Digital Entertainment now established on the state of Rio.

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