Magy Seif El-Nasr
Affiliated Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, College of Arts, Media and Design
Jointly Appointed, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Contact
- m.seifel-nasr@northeastern.edu
- 100 ME
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Office
- 617.373.3928
About
Dr. Seif El-Nasr is an Associate Professor at the College of Computer Sciences and College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, Boston. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University in Computer Science and her master’s degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Dr. Seif El-Nasr received several grants totaling over $2 Million to support her research. She published over 74 international peer-reviewed articles on her work. In addition, her work received several awards and recognition within games and interactive narrative communities, including the best paper award at the International Conference of Virtual Storytelling 2003 and several notable citations in industry books and magazines. She also received the Leadership Excellence Award and Research Excellence Award from Texas A&M University. She has collaborated and has on-going relationships with several game companies, including Electronic Arts, Bardel Entertainment, Relic Entertainment, RedHill Studios, Ignite Play, and Radical Entertainment.
She is the managing editor of the International Journal on Arts and technology and serves on several editorial and advisory boards, including the International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation, Computer Game Education Review, ACM Computers in Entertainment, and AIIDE (Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment).
She has chaired and is currently chairing several conferences including:
Foundations of Digital Games 2012
International Conference on Entertainment Computing (co-Chaired with Sidney Fels) 2011
Games User Research Summit (co-Chaired with Heather Desurvire) 2011
American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interaction Entertainment 2002
Mar 23, 2017
FY18 TIER 1 Award Recipients
21 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY18 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing $600K dollars of investment in research.
Apr 04, 2013
FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients
22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.
Apr 04, 2012
FY13 TIER 1 Award Recipients
27 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY13 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 21 different research projects.