Serious Games Research Group

Kimiya Saadat

Graduated with Thesis-based M.Sc. in 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 GamesProceedings 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 miniXCOMProceedings of the Ninth AIIDE Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games (EXAG), Pomona, California, USA, October, 2022.  [Link]

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.