Esteban Clua
Full professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense and coordinator of UFF Medialab, CNPq researcher, Scientist of the State of Rio prize in 2019 and Young Scientist of the State of Rio in 2009 and 2013. He is undergraduate in Computer Science by Universidade de São Paulo and has master and doctor degree by PUC-Rio. His main research and development area are Digital Games, Virtual Reality, GPUs, Simulation and Data Science. He is one of the founders of SBGames (Brazilian Symposium of Games and Digital Entertainment) and was the president of Game Committee of the Brazilian Computer Society from 2010 through 2014. Today he is the general coordinator of the Technical Committee of Entertainment at the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) and honorable member of the board council of ABRAGAMES (Brazilian Association for Game Development). In 2015 he was nominated as NVidia CUDA Fellow. In 2007 he received the prize from ABRAGAMES as the main contributor from the academia for the development of the game industry at Brazil. Esteban is member of the program committee of most digital entertainment conferences. He is today the coordinator of the NVIDIA Center of Excellence, that is located at the CS Institute of UFF. Esteban belongs to the council of innovation of the Culture Secretary of the State of Rio, is member of the permanent commission of Rio Criativo, Member of the permament board of innovation and technology at the Legislative board of Rio and member of the Inovation Agency at UFF. In the last 5 years Esteban has participated in the incubation and creation of different companies related to Digital Entertainment now established on the state of Rio. In 2023 he received the life achievement from the Brazilian Computer Society for the area of Digital Entertainment and Games in Brazil.
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