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Dr

Simon McCallum

Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering

School of Engineering and Computer Science

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  • Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
    School of Engineering and Computer Science

BIO

Simon has been teaching Computer Science since 1999 with Game specific courses from 2004. At undergraduate level he has taught everything from Game Design, with a focus on system design, to GPU programming and Multithreaded optimization. For graduate-level research, he focuses on Serious Games, mainly Games for Health and Games for Education

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Senior Lecturer
    Victoria University of Wellington, Engineering and Computer Science, Wellington, New Zealand4 Jun 2018 - present
  • Føsteamanuensis, Senior Lecturer
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Computer Science, Gjøvik, Norway2 Jan 2017 - present
  • Føsteamanuensis, Senior Lecturer
    Gjøvik University College, Informatics and Media Technology, Gjøvik, Norway2 Jun 2009 - 30 Dec 2016
  • Føsteamanuensis
    Hedmark University College, Computer Science, Rena, Norway11 Aug 2008 - 2 Jun 2009
  • Lecturer
    University of Otago, Computer Science, Dunedin, New Zealand29 Nov 1999 - 10 Nov 2006
  • Teaching Fellow
    University of Otago, Computer Science, Dunedin, New Zealand1 Feb 1999 - 29 Nov 1999

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Game Developer
    Chord As, Risør, Norway15 Jan 2007 - 26 Oct 2007
  • Co-Founder
    Troll Taxi, Risør, Norway22 Oct 2007 - 31 Dec 2007
  • System Developer
    ESP AS, Game Development, Risør, Norway1 Jan 2008 - 27 Jun 2008

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand12 Nov 2007
  • BSc Hons
    University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand18 Nov 1996

LANGUAGES

  • Bokmål Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål
    Can read and understand

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 4 Quality Education

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Collaborative projects
  • Media enquiries
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker

FIELDS OF RESEARCH