Oliver is a PhD student at the University Of Lincoln, UK. He has always been captivated by the behaviour of pedestrians, mostly due to the self-categorisation process of crowds, their structural aspects and the emerging social interaction between group members. This interest is reflected in his research interests, which is concerned with the simulation of crowds for gaming environments. He adapts and extends work from artificial intelligence, video games and crowd simulation. His research work contributes to entertainment, such as improving gaming experiences through more believable crowds and to serious applications such as building evacuation simulations, and crowd management training. Oliver is a member of Lincoln Social Computing Research Group and the Lincoln Games Research Group.
Besides doing research, Oliver is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Lincoln School of Computer Science, where he enjoys teaching coding, game design, game studies and level design to students of the Games Computing curriculum.