Seth Cooper

(he/him)

Associate Professor

Seth Cooper

Research interests

  • Scientific discovery games
  • Serious games
  • Crowdsourcing games
  • Citizen science
  • Novel interfaces for problem-solving
  • Automated tools for assisting game design and development
  • Computational structural biochemistry

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
  • MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
  • BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Biography

Seth Cooper is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Cooper's pioneering work combines scientific discovery games (particularly in computational structural biochemistry), serious games, and crowdsourcing games. He has shown that video game players can outperform purely computational methods for certain types of structural biochemistry problems, effectively codify their strategies, and integrate with labs to help design real synthetic molecules. He has also developed techniques to adapt the difficulty of tasks to individual game players and to generate game levels.

Before joining Northeastern, Cooper was creative director of the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington. Cooper's industry journey comprises roles at Square Enix, Electronic Arts, and Pixar Animation Studios. 

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Current PhD Students

Previous PhD Students

  • Anurag Sarkar

  • Josh Aaron Miller

  • Britton Horn

  • Sofia Eleni Spatharioti