A graduate from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) leads the technical team for the popular game Pokémon Go developed by the company Niantic.
Pokémon Go became a phenomenon with millions of smartphone users when it was released in July. Players search and capture creatures using Pokeballs in various locations around them—a mix of adventure and fantasy in one game.
Ed Wu, an alumnus of UC San Diego, is the senior project manager at Niantic.
He gave a talk at the university on Oct. 13 as part of an event for the Center for Networked Systems, according to an article published on the school’s website Thursday.
Wu graduated from UCSD in 2004, earning his bachelor’s degree from the Jacob’s School of Engineering.
He later went to Stanford University to earn a master’s in international policy studies and a Ph.D in physics. He has worked at RAND Corporation and Google before joining the Niantic team.
Niantic had been owned by Google before it branched off into its own company in 2015.
