{"id":168,"date":"2023-02-16T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:49:02","slug":"kimiya-saadat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/people\/kimiya-saadat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimiya Saadat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Graduated with Thesis-based M.Sc. in Computer Science.<\/p>

Kimiya was a master’s student in the Serious Games Research Group at the University of Calgary.<\/p>

Publications<\/strong>:<\/p>

Kimiya Saadat,\u00a0Richard Zhao. Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 Games<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the Twentieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-24)<\/em>, Lexington, USA, November, 2024. [Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 26.5%.<\/p>

Kimiya Saadat and Richard Zhao.\u00a0Exploring Adaptive MCTS with TD Learning in miniXCOM<\/a>.\u00a0Proceedings of the Ninth AIIDE Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Game<\/em>s (EXAG)<\/em>, Pomona, California, USA, October, 2022. \u00a0[Link<\/a>]<\/p>

Thesis:<\/strong><\/p>

Single-player to Two-player Knowledge Transfer in Atari 2600 Games<\/a>.<\/p>

Academic Service<\/strong>:<\/p>

Workshop Co-Organizer. The 14th AIIDE Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT)<\/em>, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. November 2024.<\/p>

Program Committee Member\/Reviewer. The 11th AIIDE Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (EXAG)<\/em>, November, 2024.<\/p>

Program Committee Member\/Reviewer. The Nineteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)<\/em>, October, 2023.<\/p><\/div>