Summary
Rilla Khaled is a distinguished academic leader in design and computation arts, serving as Director of Concordia University’s Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre and as an Associate Professor since 2015. Her research spans the design of learning and persuasive games, interactions between games and culture, procedural content generation, and reflective game design that embraces ambiguity and subverts conventional mechanics. Based in Montreal, she leads interdisciplinary work at the crossroads of game design, interaction design, third-wave HCI, serious games, and cross-cultural psychology, applying both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington and has studied at Copenhagen Business School. Her career includes prior roles at the University of Malta and IT University of Copenhagen, reflecting a global, collaborative approach to digital culture and games research.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Copenhagen Business School
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, French, Bangla