Alongside his students, he researches technologies to improve and define the science of game design and development through cognitive science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. He will be awarded the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2018 and received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Rogelio has interned as a computational narratologist at Sandia National Laboratories and Disney Research and his research is supported by IARPA, the Department of Energy, and the National GEM Consortium.