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PCG Workshop

THE 16TH WORKSHOP ON PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION (PCG2025)

Organising Committee

Victoire Hervé

Victoire HERVÉ is a Ph.D. student in the Adaptive Systems Research Group, at University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Her research field is Procedural Content Generation, focusing on automated evaluation and player’s experience. She is also co-organizing of the Generative Design in Minecraft Competition.


Florence Smith Nicholls

Florence SMITH NICHOLLS is a PhD researcher in game archaeology, preservation and AI at Queen Mary University of London. They specialise in applying archaeological methods to video games, including games with PCG. They are also an experienced narrative designer, having worked as a Story Tech in the writers' room at the indie studio Die Gute Fabrik.


Arash Moradi Karkaj

Arash MORADI is a PhD student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, specializing in the intersection of AI and digital video games. His research emphasizes PCG for game levels, adaptive player experiences, and narrative design. As he designs and experiments with various PCG systems, he is particularly interested in exploring the systems’ 'generalizability' and 'controllability,' as well as the applications of Generative AI models more broadly.

Programme Committee

  • Alexander Zook
  • Anurag Sarkar
  • Asiiah Song
  • Bedrich Benes
  • Cameron Browne
  • Daniel Karavolos
  • Diego Liebana
  • Fernando Silva
  • Gabriella Barros
  • Georgios Yannakakis
  • Gorm Lai
  • Isaac Karth
  • Jacob Schrum
  • Jim Whitehead
  • Jose Font
  • Lisa Soros
  • Lucas Ferreira
  • M Charity
  • Markus Eger
  • Matthew Barthet
  • Matthew Guzdial
  • Phil Lopes
  • Rafael Bidarra
  • Raluca Gaina
  • Riemer Rozen
  • Roger Crawfis
  • Ruben Smelik
  • Sam Snodgrass
  • Seth Cooper
  • Vadim Bulitko
  • Younès Rabii

Steering Committee

The PCG workshop has a long-standing tradition for rotating its organizers in order to ensure that a bigger part of the community is engaged and represented. The PCG workshop steering committee tries to make sure that this rotation is successful every year. The steering committee consists of: Rafael Bidarra, Kate Compton, Antonios Liapis, Jialin Liu, Julian Togelius, Jim Whitehead. We would like to thank Mike Cook, Gillian Smith for serving in the steering committee for years. If you want to get in touch with the steering committee, send an e-mail at steering@pcgworkshop.com.