Fotos Frangoudes is in his second and final year of his MS in Computer Science with Games Specialization at USC, on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received his BS in Computer Science from University of Cyprus graduating first in his class. He is intersted in serious games, with a focus on health and education, as he believes in the life-changing power of games. He has participated in projects like USCs Information Sciences Institute TeamIt project, which is an alternate reality game studying interactions between users and agents, implementing a multiplayer co-op game on USC Gamepipes Comsmopolis platform.

Currently, as part of USC Games Intelligence Lab, he is helping in the development of Intelligence Explorer, leading the work on a multiplayer FPS game. At the same time he is part of the Core Overload Final Games team developing a top-down shooter game. Finally he is part of the Creative Media and Computational Behavior Center at USC, where he is working on the VR-Based Sensorimotor Play Therapy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation project, which aims in helping people with upper limb disorders, exercise with the use of Kinect and gametrak devices. His research interests include study of human behavior in games, the impact games can have in people education and how they can help patient rehabilitation. On his free time he likes to play board and video games, basketball and tennis.