Patrick FitzGerald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art + Design in the College of Design at NC State University. He is the co-founder of the Intellimedia Initiative and the Advanced Media Lab and helped create and teach the first courses between the Department of Computer Science and the College of Design. He teaches courses in illustration, multimedia, and animation. Group projects and installations include presentations at the Mint Museum, NCMA, New Britain Museum of American Art, SIGGRAPH 2014, 2017, and 2020. In 2018, his educational gaming team exhibited at the ACC Accelerate Conference at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. In 2015 his team received an NSF grant to build a prototype for the visual learning application, RECOGNIZE.