
Mike Ambinder

Mike Ambinder is an experimental psychologist currently working at Valve and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at University of Washington. His work is focused on user experience and HCI applied to video games. He has been part of the development of "Team Fortress 2", "Left 4 Dead", "Alien Swarm", and "Portal 2". He is one of the pioneers in applying psychophysiological techniques in user experience assessment and adaptive systems in the game industry context.
Ambinder holds a B.A in Computer Science and Psychology from Yale University, and a PhD in Psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published in academic journals, and presented at main game developer conferences.