David Schwartz
Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media
David Schwartz
Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media
Education
BS, MS, Ph.D., University at Buffalo
Bio
David I. Schwartz, Ph.D. (he/him/his) has worked in the academic field of game design and development since 2001 since founding the Game Design Initiative at Cornell University. In 2007, Schwartz moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was part of the founding department in 2009, which became the School of Interactive Games and Media in 2011. After receiving tenure in 2011, he became IGM's Director in 2015. His current research focuses on gamification of cybersecurity, resilience games, geogames, digital twins, and physically-based animation.
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December 1, 2023
RIT students building device to keep astronauts healthy in space
Students, faculty, and alumni at RIT are participating in NASA’s national Moon to Mars initiative to build a training device and monitoring tool to help make extended space travel healthier for astronauts.
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March 24, 2023
RIT game design and development programs jump in rankings
RIT is one of the top universities in the world for students who want to study and create games, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review.
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February 28, 2023
RIT researchers to create serious video game for infrastructure resilience to cyberattacks
Researchers at RIT are building a serious video game to help cities prepare for, prevent, and respond to cyberattacks. RIT received a more than $600,000 grant and was selected by the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at West Point to develop the cyber exercise game and a framework for future development.
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August 15, 2023
K-12 team hosts STEM speaker series
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June 8, 2023
Schwartz and Bayliss present at Military Operations Research Society symposium
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February 15, 2022
Schwartz, Tomaszewski receive grant to prototype resilience game for critical infrastructure leaders
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November 15, 2021
Schwartz co-edits ‘Gaming and Geospatial Information’