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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Mitu Khandaker is a game designer, engineer, scholar, and entrepreneur. She is an Associate Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center, where she teaches game design and development. She was also CEO and co-founder at Glow Up Games, a game studio centering diverse audiences and stories about Black and brown joy. She holds a PhD in designing games for immersive interfaces such as VR and AR and has a background in computer engineering. She was previously on the founding team at Spirit AI, an AI tools company, and launched a location-based games startup. She also worked in the indie game space on titles such as the social simulation game </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Redshirt</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">. She has received several international accolades, including a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2013 and the Creative English Trailblazer Award in 2014. Mitu has served on the advisory committee for the Advocacy Track at the Game Developers&#8217; Conference since 2014. She lives with her husband and her toddler in New York City.</span></p>
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