Hello. My name is Colan Biemer (he/him). Fun fact about my name: It was misspelled on the birth certificate. So for the pronunciation of my name, imagine my name was spelled like “Colin.”

I am a recent PhD graduate from Northeastern University, where I was advised by Seth Cooper. My dissertation, Dynamic Level Progressions via Procedural Level Generation Guided by a Markov Decision Process for Platformers and Roguelikes, explored using reinforcement learning to guide procedural content generation for dynamic difficulty adjustment in games. Outside of my research, I like to make games, most of which are playable online or downloadable via GitHub.

When I’m not working on my research or programming some side project for fun, I’m likely doing something with my perfect dog or reading a book. My two favorite books are A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Stoner by John Williams.

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