M.Sc. Computer Science.
Kimiya is a master’s student in the Serious Games Research Group at the University of Calgary.
Publications:
Kimiya Saadat, Richard Zhao. Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 Games. Proceedings of the Twentieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-24), Lexington, USA, November, 2024. [Link] Acceptance Rate: 26.5%.
Kimiya Saadat and Richard Zhao. Exploring Adaptive MCTS with TD Learning in miniXCOM. Proceedings of the Ninth AIIDE Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games (EXAG), Pomona, California, USA, October, 2022.
Thesis:
Single-player to Two-player Knowledge Transfer in Atari 2600 Games.
Academic Service:
Workshop Co-Organizer. The 14th AIIDE Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT), Lexington, Kentucky, USA. November 2024.
Program Committee Member/Reviewer. The 11th AIIDE Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (EXAG), November, 2024.
Program Committee Member/Reviewer. The Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), October, 2023.
