A professor of computer science at the American University of Washington Mark Nelson ranked institutions Active in Technical Games Research. He rated the activity of 2140 game researchers from 706 universities in the world. Innopolis University took 87th place and became the only Russian university in the list.
An artificial intelligence laboratory on the development of games operates in an IT university under the supervision of Canadian scientist Joseph Brown. Together with researchers Khamna Aslam and Munir Makhmutov, he is exporing player preferences: how users perceive game objects and how they determine the rules of the game without reading manuals and rules. In 2020, the laboratory plans to release a book on game testing and theory of possibilities.