Thesis-based M.Sc. student. Computational Media Design. Co-supervised by Bruce Barton.
Publications:
Parsa Rahmati, Richard Zhao. Enforcing Narrative Reliability and Epistemic Pacing in LLM-Driven Detective Games via Structured Knowledge Trees. Proceedings of Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-26), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, November, 2026. [Link] Acceptance Rate: 19.4%.
Mahdi Farrokhimaleki, Parsa Rahmati, Richard Zhao. From Unstable to Playable: Stabilizing Angry Birds Levels via Object Segmentation. Proceedings of the Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-25), Edmonton, Canada, November, 2025. [Link]
Internships:
Aqlan Lab.
City of Calgary.
Instructorship:
Instructor of Record. CPSC 399.8 – Game Development.
Award:
Computer Science Teaching Assistant Excellence Laureates, 2025/2026.
Academic Service:
Workshop Co-Organizer. The 15th AIIDE Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2025.
Workshop Co-Organizer. The 14th AIIDE Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT), Lexington, Kentucky, USA. November 2024.
