Marientina Gotsis, MFA
CoFounder & Director
Maryalice
Jordan-Marsh, PhD, RN
Senior Scholar
Vangelis Lympouridis, PhD
Senior Scholar
James C. Roberts, Esq.
Advisor
Pat Levitt, PhD
Advisor
Skip Rizzo, PhD
Advisor
James Finley, PhD
Collaborator
David Baron, MSEd, DO
Advisor (Emeritus)
Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD
Collaborator (Emerita)
Dennis Wixon, PhD
Collaborator (Emeritus)
Beth Fisher, PhD, PT, FAPTA
Collaborator
Isabela Granic
Collaborator (Emerita)
Laura Garcia, PhD
Visiting Scholar (Emerita)
Diane Tucker, MA, MFA
Consultant (Emerita)
Nina Poulos Ramage, MFA
Consultant (Emerita)
JT Vernon, MSW, ASW
Visiting Scholar (Emeritus)
Scott Fisher
Advisor (Emeritus)
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH
Advisor (Emeritus)
Stacy Davies
Visiting Scholar
Kaitlin "KB" Bonfiglio
Adjunct Faculty
Current Students & Mentees
Undegraduates
Anik Panja
BFA Game Development and Interaction Design
Frances Zoe
BA Media Arts + Practice
Anne Guo
BS Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Kaleb Stephens
BS Global Health
Andrew Le
BS Biological Sciences
MA Media Arts, Games & Health
MFA Interactive Media
MFA Fine Arts
MS Product Development Engineering
Alumni, Mentees & Research Assistants*
2023
- Kaitlin "KB" Bonfiglio
MFA Interactive Media - Yuwei Lin, Cassidy Pong
MFA Interactive Media - Weston Bell-Geddes
MA Cinematic Arts (Media Arts, Games & Health)
2022
- Michelle Ma, Claire Hu
MFA Interactive Media - Garrett Flynn
MA Cinematic Arts (Media Arts, Games & Health) - Shine Park
Honors High School Program
2021
- Jeffery Newell, Laura Garcia
PhD Clinical Psychology - Francesca Palamara, Ralston Louie, Lingxiao Wang, Rong Deng
MFA Interactive Media - Morgan Kuligowski, Wendi Wu, Fiona Cahill
MA Cinematic Arts (Media Arts, Games & Health) - Sze Awu Chen
BA Interactive Entertainment - Courtney Cheng
BS Human Biology
2020
- Laura Harrison
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Laura Garcia
PhD Clinical Psychology - Hanneke Scholten
PhD Psychology - Bria Smith, David Guevara, Ruzi Vanzin
MFA Interactive Media - Alyssa Matlosz, Fabian Bock
MA Cinematic Arts ( Media Arts, Games & Health) - Max Orozco
MS Integrated Design, Business & Technology - Kevin Ke
BA Cinematic Arts
(Film & Television Production) - Nhi Trinh
BS Computational Neuroscience
2019
- Clea T. Waite
PhD Media Arts & Practice - Patrick Bender
MFA Interactive Media (Games & Health) - Kelsey Rice, Clarissa Middleton
MFA Interactive Media - Sydney Rubin
MA Cinematic Arts
(Media Arts, Games & Health) - Ceren Oney
MCM Communication Management - Eileen Hsu
BA Interactive Entertainment - Brenda Chen
BA Animation & Digital Arts - Jeffrey Doan
MS Biomedical Engineering - Darcy Malican
BS Global Health - Lena Tavitian
BA Economics/Spanish - Hannah Tracy
High School
(Honors Independent Science Research)
2018
- Matt Orgel
MD Doctor of Medicine - Fotos Frangoudes
PhD Computer Science
(ABD) - Cheng Wen
PhD Behavioral Health Research - Gabriela Gomes, Xian Lu, Atley Loughridge, Allison Comrie
MFA Interactive Media - Robert Karimi
MFA Fine Arts - Christina Lelon
MA Cinematic Arts
(Media Arts, Games & Health) - Elizabeth Hogenson
MA Film/Cinema/Video Studies - Neil Banarjee
BA Computational Neuroscience / Neurocinematics - Jessica Cheng
BA Health/Humanities - Nathan Lim
BS Computer Science
(Games) - Chris Zaki
BS Health Promotion & Disease Prevention - Elena DeBre
High School
(Honors Independent Science Research)
2017
- Brian Wu
MD/Phd Sports Medicine, Exercise Physiology, Rehabilitation - Adam Lobel
PhD Psychology - Yuting Su, Lishan Amde
MFA Interactive Media - Mark Vrahas, Gabriella Kanellos
BA Media Arts + Practice - Ashley Yu-Chih
BS Computer Science - Yoojin Seol
BA Animation & Digital Arts
2016
- Vesna Gamez-Djokic
PhD Neuroscience
- Amanda Tasse
PhD Media Arts + Practice
- Anshul Pendse, Malika Lim, Lynne Qiu
MFA Interactive Media
- Joyce DiArmendi
MS Biokinesiology
- Howard Mao
BA Biology
- Chapman Lee
BA Interactive Entertainment
- Hallie Pewthers
BA Psychology
2015
- Antonia Zaferiou
PhD Biomedical Engineering - Eleanor Tate
PhD Health Behavior Research - Chupei Zhang
PhD Chemical Engineering - Lauren Lewis, Evan Stern, Zi Li, Remy Karns
MFA Interactive Media - Nick Farmer
BA Interactive Entertainment/Theatre
(Design) - Nicholas Chan
BS Industrial & Systems Engineering
2014
MD Doctor of Medicine
PhD Social Work
MFA Interactive Media
MSW Social Work
MS Global Medicine Management
BS Business Administration/BA East Asian Languages & Cultures
2013
MFA Interactive Media
MS Computer Science
BS Occupational Therapy
BS Biomedical Engineering
BS Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
High School
Isabella Astor
The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA
2012
MFA Interactive Media
Graduate Certificate
(Scoring for Motion Pictures and TV)
2011
MCM Communication Management
BA Interactive Entertainment
BS Business Administration & Management
2010
PhD Communication
MA Strategic Public Relations
BA Interactive Entertainment/Film Production
* Listed by graduation year and without pictures because you grow up so fast! If you are incorrectly categorized and have a more recent link you prefer, email gotsis ( at ) usc.edu. This list is still incomplete and short of at least 50 people as of Dec 29, 2020. Email us anyway if you do not see yourself in here!