Tris Smith

Tris Smith is a Senior AI Programmer at Creative Assembly since June 2020, with prior experience as a Research Ninja at Ninja Theory, focusing on the development of assistive tools and semantic definitions for mixed-initiative procedural content generation in Unreal Engine. Tris served as a Tutor for programming modules at the University of Bath, and has interned as a Research Assistant at the University of Southampton, contributing to geospatial linked data integration services and emergency response data collection. Early professional experience includes work as an intern at Rare Ltd on Xbox 360 development tools. Tris holds a Doctorate in Digital Media from the University of Bath, specializing in AI for Procedural Content Generation, and a Master's degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton.