{"id":148,"date":"2023-02-15T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:21:41","slug":"farhan-aslam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/people\/farhan-aslam\/","title":{"rendered":"Farhan Aslam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box square ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-18 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"320\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-1028 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/07\/farhanaslam.png\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/07\/farhanaslam.png 300w, https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/07\/farhanaslam-281x300.png 281w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/320;\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\"><\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Graduated with Thesis-based M.Sc. in Computer Science.<\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><p>Farhan is a VR Enthusiast, Graphic Designer, and a Software Engineer having multiple interests and is fond of learning new things. He has a firm educational background in Computer Science though his curiosity centers around Extended Reality and Human Computer Interaction. He is tempted to play with colours and combine it with science to seek creativity.<\/p><p><strong>Publication<\/strong>:<\/p><p>Farhan Aslam,\u00a0Richard Zhao. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/CoG60054.2024.10645616\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/CoG60054.2024.10645616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voice-Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Serious Games<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)<\/em>, Milan, Italy, August, 2024. [<a href=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2024\/05\/2024cog-voice_augmented_VR_interface.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 41.1%.<\/p><p><strong>Thesis:<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.11575\/PRISM\/50341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voice-Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Working with Complex 3D Models in Educational Environments<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>Awards<\/strong>:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.ucalgary.ca\/computer-science\/about\/our-department\/ta-recognition-2024-2025\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/science.ucalgary.ca\/computer-science\/about\/our-department\/ta-recognition-2024-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Computer Science Teaching Assistant Excellence Laureates<\/a>, 2024\/2025.<\/p><p>Departmental Research Award, 2022.<\/p><p><strong>Internship<\/strong>:<\/p><p>Telus Communications.<\/p><p><strong>Entrepreneurship:<\/strong><\/p><p>Labs4 TRL^<\/p><p>Lab2Market\u00a0Validate<\/p><p><strong>Academic Service<\/strong>:<\/p><p>Reviewer.  <em>The Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)<\/em>, November, 2025.<\/p><p>Program Committee Member\/Reviewer. <em>The 15th AIIDE Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT)<\/em>, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. November 2025.<\/p><p>Program Committee Member\/Reviewer.  <em>The Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)<\/em>, October, 2023.<\/p><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/1223"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}