Mitu Khandaker

Mitu Khandaker speaking at the Game Developers Conference 2024.

Mitu Khandaker is a British game designer and engineer who is the founder of The Tiniest Shark and Glow Up Games. She is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of Arts, specifically within the Game Center.[1] During her time at NYU, she was also the Chief Creative Officer at Spirit AI, an artificial intelligence London-based company that aims to fight cyberbullying behaviors to foster safer online communities.[2]

Khandaker was featured in the 2021-2022 #IfThen Exhibit which celebrates women innovators in STEM,[citation needed] has been interviewed at GameCity for her work on Redshirt,[3] and has won the Breakthrough BAFTA and Creative English Trailblazer awards.[4]

  1. ^ "#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit". ifthenexhibit.org. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  2. ^ "How Spirit AI uses artificial intelligence to level up game communities". VentureBeat. 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  3. ^ "GameCity festival interviews – Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris". the Guardian. 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  4. ^ "Dr. Mitu Khandaker". USASEF. Retrieved 2022-11-17.