Dr. Harold Chaput | faculty | faculty affiliates

Adjunct Faculty

University of Texas at Austin

Masters of Digital Media Program

Technical Director

Electronic Arts

Ph.D

Robotics and Infant Cognition

Harold Chaput is a Technical Director at Electronic Arts where, most recently, he led the engineering team for the FIFA common gameplay engine in the acclaimed FIFA 08 and FIFA 09. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 for his research in robotics and infant cognition. He also founded the Austin Museum of Digital Art, the world's first museum of digital art, in 1997. Dr. Chaput has been a research consultant in educational virtual worlds for Northwestern University and North Dakota State University, user interface for Compaq Western Research Labs, and machine learning for Motorola Advanced Research Labs.