[1] The studio is currently being run by Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, who work closely with the students in their research.

[1] According to Noah Wardrip-Fruin, a major benefit for establishing the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UCSC is its proximity to Silicon Valley, where many game companies are located.

[4] PhD students in the program work closely with the advisors on these projects, which have a wide range of topics.

According to Mateas, however, the program at the University of California, Santa Cruz Expressive Intelligence Studio strikes a balance between technology and design.

EISbot was realized as an agent architecture, which contains submodules for reactive planning, machine learning and case-based reasoning.