Damián Isia
Founder, Naimad Games

Damián Isla is an independent Game AI and Design Consultant. Previously, he was gameplay and AI Engineering Lead at Bungie Studios, where he was responsible for the AI for mega-hit first-person shooters HALO 2 and HALO 3. Prior to Bungie, he earned an M.Eng. at the MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Characters Group, where he did research on learning and behavior for artificial creatures. He has spoken on games and character AI at the Game Developers Conference, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), the AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE) and at Siggraph. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science, again from MIT.