Faculty informations and some of related questions

So, starting with talking about what it means to be a university faculty member. They are mainly the professors in the university, some are focus more on research, and some are focus more on lecturing. And those who focus more on research are usually the professors responsible for graduate students and sometimes, PhD. All the professors have their field of study. And they will teach in that particular subjects and do research with students who are interesting in further research within the topic.

One professor i have talked to is my CSE 8A professor, Gary Gillespie. He’s mainly a lecturer but help students in tutoring position. He has his class which will train the students to be a tutor. This is really helpful before finding a really internship working for some companies. The experience that gained from becoming a tutor is really valuable. And in my opinion, i will try my best to be a tutor once i reach 90 units.

Second professor i talked to is professor Garrison Cottrell. I have taken his CSE 87 this quarter and really learned a lot of interesting things that related to AI, neural network, machine learning and etc. He showed us a project his graduate students has worked on. A robot that will recognize human faces and correspond accordingly. The theory behind facial recognition was  surprisingly interesting. And i was really motivated to work more towards this area. It is interesting to me because the amusing impact i think it will have later on. I believe the world will become a robotic world soon. And everything will be automatic. Although it will raise some concerns, i think this is where our world is heading and it is a good thing. The advancement of human through technologies is a huge step for some better life later on. However, i realized my lack of knowledge in this particular area. Therefore, i decided to really hard and apply for some research position after taking some upper division classes.

And the last professor i am going to talk about is my current CSE 8B professor, Susan Marx. She’s a great lecturer and really helpful outside of classroom. i have been keeping going to her office hours every week and learn a lot of useful things not only in subject of the class but the general area of computer science. I really want to be one of her tutor since all her tutors are so nice and helpful to me. I really want to be like that and i believe it will really be an amusing experiences.

Some of the questions i have are:

How to connect to some professors when you are not able to take their classes?

I want to do some things with the game, but CSE 125 is only for seniors. And i really want to start early. How can i go to the professor and ask for some things to do? Or even just make some general connections.

And last question is, is there research topics related to games? I have a lot of interest but i really want to be a game developer and be able to create a lot of interesting and useful games. If so, where can i find the informations.