Edirlei Soares de Lima is a lecturer and researcher in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Games. His main research area involves the development of new methods of artificial intelligence for games and interactive narratives. During his career, his work and research received several awards, including best paper awards at ICEC (IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing), SBGames (Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment), and WebMedia (Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web).