Nicolas Ducheneaut

Nicolas Ducheneaut is a co-founder and technical lead at Quantic Foundry. Nicolas was previously a director of gamer behavior research at Ubisoft and a principal scientist at PARC. Their research has focused on the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds. Nicolas has conducted the longest and largest statistical study of player behavior in World of Warcraft to date, and has developed a wide range of innovative social software applications.

Nicolas Ducheneaut has a Ph.D. in Information Management and Systems from the University of California, Berkeley. Nicolas also has a M.Sc. in Organization Science from Université de Montréal - HEC Montréal, and a Diplome Ecole de Commerce in Finance from ESSCA Ecole de management.