Sanketh Bhat

Interactive Research Intern

• Designed & developed an interactive sandbox for Virtual Humans - conversational humanoid characters driven by both local and cloud based AI services.
• Worked inside of the Rapid Integration & Development Environment (RIDE) platform inside of Unity.
• Developed behavior: Speech Recognition, Text to Speech, Natural Language Processing, Non-verbal behavior generation
• Services Used: AWS, Azure and Google cloud services.

Walden, A Game - Graduate Research Assistant

• Helping in solving crashes and implementing optimizations for lower end machines and Chromebooks.
• Working closely with the lead programmer to get familiar with the codebase and project specifications.
• Game Website

The Alchemist’s Garden - Game & Narrative Designer

• Designed and prototyped an educational game about biomimicry using Unity in a team size of 4.
• Created various design and narrative documentation to supplement gameplay and worldbuilding.
• Game demo was showcased at the World Biodiversity Forum ‘22 hosted in Davos, Switzerland.

Atlas Mission - Game Designer & Developer

• Designed a series of educational 2D games for 2-8 year old children that fit into a mobile platform with an overarching epic narrative.
• Each game was designed with a specific curriculum in mind for education. This included literacy, maths, logic & critical thinking.
• Worked with a diverse team of designers, artists & developers spread across the world.
• Researched & developed tools & game prototypes in Unity, taking on a hybrid designer/developer role.
• Company Website
• Atlas Mission
• Android Store Link // iOS Store Link

Game Development Tutorial Programmer

• Created programming examples for an ongoing open source tutorial collection.
• Primarily in C++ using the OpenGL pipeline for graphical based examples.
• Tutorials consisted of 2D physics & kinematics, OpenGL examples (including PBR), pathfinding & spatial partitioning.
• Document Link

Teaching Assistant - College Physics I

• Worked with students in lab sessions and hosted weekly out of classroom workshops for students requiring extra help.
• Assisted the professor both with grading and creating content for the class

Tutorial Designer & Developer

• Designed two tutorial games for Mimyk’s endoscopy simulation equipment in Unity3D.
• Solely developed concepts and prototypes for the tutorials using the endoscopy simulator hardware as a game controller.
• Attended weekly meetings where the team discussed requirements and reviewed the work done.
• Company Website

University of Southern California

Annenberg Fellow 2022-2023

GPA: 4.00 [Current]

Rochester Institute of Technology

Summa Cum Laude

GPA: 3.88