Fighting against Fraud in eSports: state of affair and edoping forensic

Salvador Jr Reyes
philippines

Doctoral Candidate 15 (DC 15) Name: Salvador Jr Reyes
Email Address: [email protected]

Personal Information: Salvador has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Philippines and a Master’s Degree in Sport Management from South Korea. He is an IT Consultant and he was a member of the Philippine National Judo Team and a former competitor in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He co-founded a sports news website that mainly covers collegiate and Filipino sports.

He is an instructor on leave for Sport Management and Judo at a university in the Philippines and has also served as an IT Consultant for different government agencies in the Philippines from 2019-2022.

His research interest is in esports as a sport and he is currently working on the adoption of forensic science discipline to the emerging concept of edoping in esports.

Home University: UNIL

Planned Secondments:
(1) Host University: KU Leuven
(2) Industrial Partner: IOC

Supervisors: Prof Thomas Souvignet, UNIL; Prof Letizia Paoli, KUL

Project Description: The objective of this project is to investigate the realm of fraud in esports by applying forensic practices associated established in traditional anti-doping, to edoping (enhancement of gaming performance through illicit digital means), and to propose strategies for adapting anti-doping forensic practices to combat the emerging challenge of anti-edoping.