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.
