Our AIAS Foundation programs support our talented students and young professionals who have gone on to impact the gaming industry in a variety of positive and inspirational ways. Check out a collection of their continued achievements below.
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Sydney Adams
- Associate Game Designer at Wizards of the Coast
Jess Adepoju
- Rotational Manager at Activision Blizzard
Khaila Amazan-Hall
- Barnes & Noble Scholarship
- Executive Assistant to EVP, Production & Development at The Walt Disney Studios
Sarah Belhumeur
- Game Art and Animation at Spry Fox
Ji Chen
- IGF 2015 Student Showcase Winner
- SXSW Gamer's Voice Award Nominee
- IndieCade 2014 Finalist
- Game Designer & Design Team Manager at thatgamecompany
Stephanie Chen
- D.E. Shaw Discovery Fellow
- "The Information" Scholar
- Software Engineer at Managed by Q
Sarah Conde
- MAIGC Outstanding Scholar
- Producer, 2PP (Xbox) at Microsoft
Atsina Corrington
- ESA Foundation Scholarship Winner
- Design Intern at Insomniac Games
Clayton D'Mello
- Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Award
- Concept Artist at Studio Wildcard
Maya DeJesus
- Graphic Designer at Home Source Systems
Cornelia Geppert
- TED Salon speaker
- CEO Jo-Mei Games
Renee Gittens
- Forbes 30 Under 30
- Executive Director of the IGDA
Chitvan Gupta
- GeoPrint - Mobile App Winner
- Software Engineer at Glu Mobile
Alex Hartung
- Chancellor's Service Award
- Creative Producer at Activision
Geneva Heyward
- Games for Change Student Challenge Winner (2017 / 2018)
- National STEM Video Game Challenge Winner (2017)
- Intern at Glow Up Games
Shana Joseph
- Camera and Staging Intern at Pixar
Christopher Kao
- Profiled in US News & World Report - Best Business Schools 2019
- Best Game Design Finalist - Raven & Orion
- Director of Product at Adult Swim Games
Sahar Kausar
- Electronic Arts - ETC Fellowship 2018
- Game Developers Conference (GDC) Scholarship 2018
- Associate Technical Animator at Walt Disney Imagineering
Mary Kenney
- Forbes 30 Under 30
- Writer at Insomniac Games
Sumeet Khobare
- Game Programmer at Beenox
Na-Yeon Kim
- 2017 Pittsburgh Creative Industries Festival - People's choice
- 2018 International Serious Play Award
- UI/UX Designer/Artist/Graphic Designer at Stitchbridge Inc.
River Liu
- Eric Dybsand Memorial AI Scholarship 2018
- IGDA Scholarship 2018
- Simulation Engineer at Uber Advanced Technologies Group
Shiyun Liu
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grand Jury Prize
- Software Engineer at Looking Glass Factory
Marchelle Lundquist
- Dean's List (Fall 2015 - Spring 2019)
- Columbia CSArts Initiative Featured Visual Artist
- Andrew Hyman Fellowship in Public Service
- Recent Columbia University Graduate
Ciarra Matthews
- Tech and CIS Lab Instructional Aide at Laney College
Rachel Moeller
- GDC Game Narrative Review Gold Winner
- 2017 Pittsburgh Global Game Jam Diversity Award
- Women in Gaming Game Changer
- 2016 Pittsburgh Global Game Jam Jammer's Choice Award
- Level Designer at Question
Shayna Moon
- Forbes 30 Under 30
- Former Producer at Santa Monica Studio
Griva Patel
- 2017 Top Ten Creative Industries projects in the GAMING + EDUCATION category
- Finalist in College - Digital (Let's Play PA 2017)
- Senior Product Manager for Connected Play at PBS KIDS
Danielle Powers
- Audience Winner for MachinimaFest 2015
- Concept Artist at EAE Master's Studio
Maliheh Rahrovan
- Teaching Assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology
Ridima Ramesh
- Best Student Game 2019, Games for Change
- Gold Medal, International Serious Play Awards
- Published “Prism, a Game to Promote Autism Acceptance Among Elementary School Students”
- Game Designer at IDEO
Camille Ramseur
- SH//FT Women in VR/AR
- Oculus Connect Scholar 2018
- Disney Tech Behind the Magic Grace Hopper Conference Recipient
- LucasFilm, Dreamworks Animation, Walt Disney Imagineering in Technical Art and Technical Direction roles
Sydnie Ritchie
- Intel Scholar
- Senior Game Designer at Jam City
Nate Ross
- Associate Product Manager at Jam City
Lauren Scanlan
- Eisner for Best Archival Project — Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set
- IGDAF Intel Scholar at GDC 2015
- Freelance Editor at Kodansha USA and Lauren Scanlan LLC
Jing Shu
- Software Engineer at Facebook
Debanschu Singh
- Product Manager at Microsoft
Ryan Sligh
- Software Engineer at Microsoft
Neri St. Charles
- FIEA Director Fellowship
- Student at University of Central Florida
Raymond Tan
- International Game Developers Association Scholar
- Lead Data Scientist at Mavenview
Emperatriz Ung
- Margins Fellow
- Ora Mary Phelam Poetry Prize
- Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar
- Narrative Designer at Gameloft
- Adjunct Professor at NYU
Danielle Vuono
- Florence Whistler Fish Award for Student Excellence
- Art Generalist at Piixeldust Studios
Yiren Wang
- Judges’ Choice Award in Microsoft ID@Xbox The Student Dream
- The Best Game Production Team in Perfect World Innovation Game Competition
- Student at New York University
Franzi Wischmann
- QA and Data Engineering at Xbox Studios
Yuanqing Wu
- International Ambassador - GDC 2016
- Golden Dragon Award - Best Comic for Girls
- Project Manager at Urban Arts Partnership
- Independent Game Designer and Developer
Franzi Wischmann
- QA and Data Engineering at Xbox Studios
Jenny Xu
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Recipient (2018-2019)
- Niantic Beyond Reality Developer Contest Winner (2019)
- BostInno 25 Under 25
- International Game Developer Association Scholar
- NEWMAC All-Conference and Academic All-Conference Award
- Xbox Game Changer Award
- Entertainment Software Association LOFT Video Game Innovation Fellowship
- IGDA Foundation Women in Games Ambassador
- CEO at Talofa Games
This page was last updated April 7, 2020. If you are a former scholar who would like your information updated, please email [email protected]