Spencer Striker
Curriculum Innovation Award Recipient, 2025
The following is an excerpt from Northwestern Now.
"The future of digital media design
Spencer Striker is an associate professor of digital media design at Northwestern Qatar.
His curricular innovation is to integrate creative production curriculum with NU-Q’s AIM Lab research to advance human centered AI innovation in media, creative production and digital communication.
By incorporating AI tools across various courses and leveraging AIM Lab's research infrastructure and partnerships, Striker seeks to establish a sustainable model for long-term innovation in creative technology education that will benefit NU-Q students for years to come.
In Game Design, students will explore content generation and AI-assisted level design, while focusing on core gameplay principles. Animation courses will balance traditional principles of movement and timing with emerging AI tools for character animation and style transfer. Sound Design will integrate AI audio synthesis with acoustic theory, and Web Design will investigate AI-driven interface generation within the framework of user-centered design principles.
Striker joined Northwestern in 2019. His work focuses on designing game-based learning experiences, immersive VR simulations, and generative AI-driven production pipelines that bridge storytelling with educational impact."