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Yusuf Pisan is an international expert on computer game design and development. He is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he runs the Games Studio and co-directs the Creativity and Cognition Studios.

Yusuf is one of the founders of the Sydney Chapter of ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) and the founder of the first Interactive Entertainment conference in Australia, which is now established as an annual conference series. He has coordinated the International Game Developers Association's (IGDA) task force to design a model curriculum for games in 2007 and is the proposed chair for the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 bid. Yusuf introduced the first advanced subjects on computer games in Australia, designed the Bsc in Games Development at UTS, and serves as the Faculty of IT representative to oversee the Master of Animation course.