Author: Richard Zhao

Congratulations to Kimiya Saadat for completing her M.Sc. thesis! Kimiya’s thesis is available here.

Mahdi, Parsa, and Kimiya have organized the Intelligent Narrative Technologies Workshop as part of the AIIDE Conference.  Thanks for their efforts in making the workshop a success!

Naznin Shishir and Farhan Aslam demonstrated their research in virtual reality technology in the University of Calgary XR Open House event! See video of the event.

Our graduate students Kimiya Saadat, Mahdi Farrokhi Maleki, and our former graduate student Michael Shomoye each have a new publication! Kimiya‘s paper “Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 …

Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi has a new publication, “Poems, Pulses and Polygons: How Classical Arabic Poetry Resonates with Music and Geometry“, accepted at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2024). …

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi for getting his paper “Let the Poem Hit the Rhythm: Using a Byte-Based Transformer for Beat-Aligned Poetry Generation” accepted for publication at the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity …

On May 2, as part of the Teaching with XR Community of Practice hosted by the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Richard Zhao joined a panel on the topic of Discussing Viable XR Options …

Congratulations to master’s student Farhan Aslam for getting his work “Voice-Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Serious Games” accepted as a research paper in the 2024 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)!

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Mohamad Elzohbi for having his paper “ContrastWSD: Enhancing Metaphor Detection with Word Sense Disambiguation Following the Metaphor Identification Procedure” accepted at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources …

We welcome two new graduate students, Matthew McConnell and Parsa Rahmati!