Alex J. Champandard has a strong academic background in AI with degrees from York and Edinburgh, often speaking about his artificial intelligence research. He also hosts a roundtable on learning AI and computer games at the Game Developers Conference. As the lead engineer of FEAR (an open-source game AI project), he consults with professional programmers to integrate state-of-the-art prototypes into commercial games. Founder of AI-Depot.com, a popular community AI site, he brings tutorials to an audience of AI enthusiasts. Alex has also contributed multiple articles to the AI Game Programming Wisdom series. He is part of the AI Interface Standards Committee, intending to define a common specification for game AI techniues.