Derek Lomas is a co-director of the 2009 DML competition winner Playpower.org.
Currently, Lomas is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute, where he is researching learning game design methods. He received his MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, where he studied Social Design. He received his BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University, where he studied skill learning, music cognition, and the neurological bases of empathy.