
Professor, Computer Game Design Program, CVPA
Founder and Previous Directors of the Virginia Serious Game Institute (VSGI) & Computer Game Design Program
Associate Editor, International Journal of eSports Research (IJER), IGI Global
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room 2020
Mail Stop: 1C3
Biography
Dr. Scott M. Martin is an inventor, mentor, educator, entrepreneur, and author. He is a Professor of Game Design & Technology, and was the founding Director of the Virginia Serious Game Institute (VSGI), and founding Director of the Computer Game Design Programs at George Mason Âé¶¹¹ú²ú in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Martin earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins Âé¶¹¹ú²ú, and his doctorate degree from the Âé¶¹¹ú²ú of Maryland, College Park. Ìý
For the past seven years, Dr. Martin’s research focus has been designing new technological solutions and deep-learning algorithmic reasoning models applied to improving human cognitive capacitance, combining the fields of data science and the social sciences of human knowledge acquisition. He also recently developed a new autonomous AGI teaching super-system, blockchain algorithm paradigm designed to secure and protect online user datasets, and a new AI-core game development engine design. His research work has resulted in multiple U.S. PTO patent applications, global public presentations, and several recent publications including the books,ÌýSerious Games in Personalized Learning:ÌýNew Models for Design and Performance, Routledge, 2021,ÌýArtificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, and the Redefinition of the Classroom.ÌýRowman & Littefield, 2019 (June), and the chapterÌýCreating personalized learning using aggregated data from students’ online conversationalÌýinteractions in customized groupsÌýin:Ìý,ÌýRoutledge, 2018.Ìý
In the last 30 years, Dr. Martin has taught courses on the undergraduate and graduate levels as distinct as philosophy, theory, and criticism, music composition, business entrepreneurship & management, acoustics, engineering, and software programming. Dr. Martin has founded multiple institutes, research centers, schools, and businesses, and he is also the founder of PSTH LLC, a business consultancy, and most recently Elluminai Labs LLC, an autonomous teaching & training framework software venture.ÌýÌý
Degrees:
- DMA, Music, Âé¶¹¹ú²ú of Maryland
- Undergraduate and Graduate degree, Johns Hopkins Âé¶¹¹ú²ú